From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 5 12:24:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA13076 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:24:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA13067 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA03827; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:25:13 -0700 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:25:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny To: Global Internet Shopping Mall cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about Cisco 2503i price In-Reply-To: <199608051107.GAA16683@isot.isot.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Global Internet Shopping Mall wrote: > > You can always get the Cisco 2501 on a PC Card with 4 megs of RAM > >for about $500 and just use any old 8088 PC since all it needs is the > >power from the slot... As you can program it via the Serial Port on the > >card... > > How about Ricomm n2csu? At $1200 contains router/csu/dsu in single card w/ > additional router. Don't know if it works with FreeBSD, it does work with BSDi. Hmmm, no idea about that one since haven't heard of that brand before... I heard Ascend, Adtran, and Cisco is the way to go. I think the card you are looking at doesn't really need a operating system but acts like a serial com port so you can configure it either from the communications program in your OS or do it from a laptop via a cable. The card probably just uses the power from the PC slot to work and nothing else. Atleast that's how the Cisco AccessPC Card works... Is this a 56k or a T1 card? Vince GaiaNet Systems Unix Networking Operations http://www.gaianet.net