From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Nov 14 10:49:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA25438 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 10:49:06 -0800 (PST) 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 KAA25431 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 10:49:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA16547; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 10:48:47 -0800 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 10:48:46 -0800 (PST) From: Veggy Vinny To: Jim Dixon cc: John Hay , Chad Shackley , isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Decision in Router Purchase In-Reply-To: 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 Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Jim Dixon wrote: > On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Veggy Vinny wrote: > > > > > 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? > > You can use the board for other purposes, possibly with different > daughterboards. It has nothing to do with 'the ethernet side', which > is handled by the Pentium. I forgot a T1 was synchronous. > > T1 actually is 3Mbps accourding to Dennis at ET, T1 speed > > going in and out combined... > > Well, of course, it's bidirectional. But everybody else thinks that > T1 is 1.536 Mbps or so. > > We run N2Ds at 2 Mbps (or 4 Mbps if you want to count it that way) > with no trouble at all. That's good to know. Thanks for the info. Vince GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Operations - GUS Mailing Lists Admin