From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 14 21:15:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA05349 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 21:15:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA05337 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 21:14:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.8.6/8.8.5) id GAA10743; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 06:14:20 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199708150414.GAA10743@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Multi-homed - Load Balancing - No Single Point of Failure In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970814151925.00eb7510@ccsales.com> from "Randy A. Katz" at "Aug 14, 97 03:19:25 pm" To: randyk@ccsales.com (Randy A. Katz) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 06:14:20 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rh@alpine.net, isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I just spoke with the guy in sales at SDL. It seems they're tied in closely > with BSDi and he seemed to think they would be able to offer a solution in > that area (using BSDi, of course). I'm not so opposed to buying the OS if > the solution is good and it means we don't have to buy a Cisco 4700. > If you just want a normal Sync PPP or raw HDLC (Cisco mode) connection FreeBSD 2.2 and -current supports the SDL RISCom/N2 ISA and PCI cards. The man page is sr(4) and there is examples in LINT, although the man page doesn't mention the PCI driver I see. Seems I forgot to update that. :-( John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za