From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Nov 14 01:50:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA27206 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 01:50:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA27161 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 01:49:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA06301; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 11:48:35 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199611140948.LAA06301@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Decision in Router Purchase In-Reply-To: from Jim Dixon at "Nov 14, 96 08:43:32 am" To: jdd@vbc.net (Jim Dixon) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 11:48:35 +0200 (SAT) Cc: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, isp@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL24 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > We use a variety of sync serial cards. The ET card is an old design, > takes up two ISA slots (one for each port), and has other problems. > The SDL Communications cards (N2d, N2pci) are better hardware. > > The problem with the SDL cards is the lack of FreeBSD drivers. There > is a driver for the N2d but not for the N2pci. The ET driver software > suppports more protocols and some degree of compression. There is support for the N2 and N2pci cards in FreeBSD-current and 2.2. I have commited a driver a few weeks ago. The N2d I don't know about. I think it is a card with a builtin NTU. Here in South Africa we have to use the Telkom supplied NTU's so I didn't add support for it. There is also a driver for the ISA Digi/Arnet SYNC570i cards. Look at www.dgii.com for them. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za