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Date:      Thu, 14 Nov 1996 03:30:19 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net>, John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>, Chad Shackley <chad@gaianet.net>, isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Decision in Router Purchase 
Message-ID:  <199611141130.DAA10435@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Nov 1996 02:58:02 PST." <Pine.PTX.3.95.961114025637.6675P-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> 

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>> > 	Was just looking at the SDL Homepage and was wondering what the
>> > Asynchronous and BiSynchrous speeds mean since isn't it supposed to do
>> > atleast 1.544MBps?
>> > 
>> > 	THis is for the RISCCom/N2.
>> >  ...
>> >                               HDLC/SDLC Speeds to 12 Mbps
>> 
>> This is the number you care about.  PPP, Cisco HDLC, and frame relay
>> run on top of raw HDLC.  We have never cranked them up to 12 Mbps ;-)
>> but they work fine at 2 Mbps or T1.
>
>	I know what you mean but what about for the Ethernet side of it,
>isn't that Asynchronous speed in any way related or what were those
>numbers for?  T1 actually is 3Mbps accourding to Dennis at ET, T1 speed
>going in and out combined...

   I'm sure you misunderstood what Dennis said. I'm sure he knows that T1's
are DS1 speed (1.544Mbits/second).

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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