From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 15 06:35:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA26840 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 06:35:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mexcom.net (mail.mexcom.net [206.103.64.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA26831 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 06:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sunix (eculp@sunix.mexcom.net [206.103.64.3]) by mail.mexcom.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA24863; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 08:34:07 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <33F45AC4.277FA18@mexcom.net> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 08:33:56 -0500 From: Edwin Culp Organization: Mexico Communicates, S.C. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.14 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Hay CC: "Randy A. Katz" , rh@alpine.net, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi-homed - Load Balancing - No Single Point of Failure References: <199708150414.GAA10743@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Hay wrote: > > > 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 Correct me if I'm wrong but that means that with a SDL RISCom and gateD we can build the pentium, multihomed, router with full bgp routes. It appears that they WANT to sell their cards:-) Does anyone have something like this working? Thanks a lot, Ed