From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 13 09:16:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 634F416ADE3 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:16:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F9143D6B for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:16:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from coolf89ea26645 (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id kAD9Gmx99598; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:16:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Message-ID: <001d01c70704$5b63f6d0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "John L" References: <20061112143703.58798.qmail@simone.iecc.com> <000e01c706ce$0833ca70$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <20061112222038.M42153@simone.iecc.com> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:16:06 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with sr driver and Wanic 400 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:16:58 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "John L" To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:26 PM Subject: Re: Problems with sr driver and Wanic 400 > > What I found works is freebsd 4.x, and a Pentium 2 350-400Mhz > > this was using risecom n/2 cards. > > > > FreeBSD 6.1 doesen't work at any speed in this combo, it loses > > packets. > > Phoo. Does the pf or ipfw/altq stuff work on 4.x? Yes, but I don't know if it has all the features you want. > I'm currently runing > an ISA n/2 in an old BSD/OS box which works fine except that it can't do > priority queueing, and I have some voip phones that would benefit. > > > With Cisco 1601's selling on the used market for $25 or so, there's > > little interest among the developers in fixing this. Also the wanic 4xx > > is no longer in production, another disincentive. > > Hmmn. I think I have a Wanic 500 around that I bought on ebay. Any > support for those? I've got a driver for this card that I was sent by Imagestream, they got it from one of their developer/customers. It's for something like FreeBSD 4.9 or 4.3, I can't remember which. It will not compile unmodified on FreeBSD 4.11 Supposedly the programming docs for the chipset used on the WanIC 500 are only available under NDA, so without clear direction from Imagestream the driver would probably not be able to be distributed publically. I never signed an NDA, though. The best bet for current support for these cards is to use Linux, you will get plenty of support from Imagestream, then. Unfortunately this is a market where the few manufacturers of synchronous serial port chipsets - Hitachi, etc. - only have a handful of router vendors (like Cisco, etc.) that regularly buy these chipsets. The router vendors are faced with a shrinking market for these chips since more people are going to DSL and such rather than T1s and they don't want to see an upstart competitor take away business, so all of them are pressuring the chipset manufacturers to be very sparing on providing documentation to anyone else. Ted Or should I just make my BSD box ether to ether and > sit a Cisco on top of it? > > Tnx. > > R's, > John >