Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 13:34:10 -0600 (MDT) From: Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com> To: Len Conrad <lconrad@Go2France.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any experience with T3/HSSI cards and FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.990714133247.6352A-100000@ts.shopnet.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.56.19990714203040.02d640b0@go2france.com>
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take a look at www.lanmedia.com, very friendly to *BSD environ. I know several of their cards are supported in Net/OpenBSD, driver under BSD license. not sure of FreeBSD. diana On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Len Conrad wrote: > Hans, > > I'm looking at using fbsd with a www.etinc.com HSSI card to receive an E3 > line coming out of the HSSI interface of a Kentrox E3 ISDU. Still some > weeks away though. > > There aren't tons of choices at T3/E3 levels. www.digitallink.com has an > E3 DSU, and www.sdl-comm.com also has an HSSI card, but there isn't a fbsd > driver for the new SDL Comm WANic that isn't available yet. The WANic is > substantially cheaper than the ET card. > > Apart from that, I didn't find much else in hardware. > > But several comments from various people and contexts indicate the FreeBSD > and a PCI HSSI should have no trouble handling T3/E3 speeds. Dennis @ > etinc.com and Doug Haas at imagestream-is.com confirm without reservation > and from experience that their cards can support ET/T3 speeds just fine. > > I wouldn't start by asking the same box to run ipfilter with 40 rules, NAT, > and squid and IPsec, though, and keep up with T3/E3 wire speeds. BGP4 and > basic packet forwarding with some light filtering seems doable and > unavoidable if you have to have more than one backbone feed. > > btw, I'm also fishing around availability of the Ariel PRI RS2000 card > under fbsd. > > Len. > > =================== > > >We have just added a layer of complexity to the router that we are designing > >and I wanted to hear about some real world experience. We want to have > >two T1s > >to the internet using BGP routing, then a leased T3 directly to an branch > >office. We would also like to make this machine our firewall and IPSec/VPN > >machine. Any words of advice or comments would be greatly appreciated. > > > >-Hans > > > > | || ||| || r a z o r f i s h , inc. > > > > hans-christoph steiner > > [ network systems manager ] > Diana Eichert deichert@wrench.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the messagehelp
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