From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 8 21:51:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F03937B401 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 21:51:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f794pGb11188; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 21:51:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "MurrayTaylor" , "Odhiambo Washington" , "FBSD-Q" Cc: Subject: RE: Isn't it true? Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 21:51:16 -0700 Message-ID: <000001c1208e$ec519920$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: <004201c11fd6$b61cfce0$2a7627cb@bytecraft.au.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: MurrayTaylor [mailto:MurrayTaylor@bytecraftsystems.com] >Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 11:53 PM >> >Here Down under in Australia I am using the WANic 405 card and the netgraph >stuff for a frame relay link (currently 128kbit max on copper) for our ISP >link, and will be adding a second DLCI (DLCI == logical port for want of >the full description) for a Melbourne - Sydney link. (uses the sr driver >which get netgraphified once you rebuilt the kernel with options NETGRAPH >and >the sr driver > >[=====] +--+---+-----+ >[ ISP ]----DLCIa--+--(NTU)--|sr|ng0| | >[=====] | | +---+ | > | | |ng1| | >[=====] | +--+---+ | >[ SYD ]----DLBIb--+ | | >[=====] +------------+ > >Works great .... and as the WANic 405 is capable of 2Mbit, if we need more >bandwidth, we can easily step up to an optical Network Terminal Unit from >Telstra. > >netgraph 0 (ng0) is the 'interface' to the ISP >netgraph 1 (ng1) is the 'interface' to Sydney > >Sydney has a similar WANic - netgraph setup > >And this is just using one of the two ports on the WANic... > You may be interested in a patch that Rod Grimes wrote for the sr driver that corrects an interrupt handling problem. It's useful for high loads. (128K is NOT a high load) Also, you only really need the netgraph stuff for Frame Relay. The sr driver itself supports both PPP and Cisco HDLC. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message