From owner-freebsd-small Tue Apr 24 18:18:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from borg.inreach.com (borg.inreach.com [209.142.2.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A69DE37B422 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:18:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from norami@unlimited.net) Received: (qmail 22930 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2001 01:18:41 -0000 Received: from 209-142-4-28.stk.inreach.net (HELO unlimited.net) (209.142.4.28) by mail.unlimited.net with SMTP; 25 Apr 2001 01:18:41 -0000 Message-ID: <3AE6269C.3CFB42B9@unlimited.net> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:21:32 -0700 From: John Oram X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Cc: Brooks Davis , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is BSD capable?? References: <002001c0cc6d$be9aee20$8995efd1@quick> <20010423212204.B32567@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <01042421341401.14955@offworld1.net> <20010424145138.B30762@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark: Take a look at Lonnie Nunweiler @ Web Warehouse is running 2.4 GHz wireless radios and can assist you in using either PicoBSD or Linux. He has more than four experience doing what your asking about. His approach may save you a lot of time and money. Another place to look is the Archives: If I can be of assistance, let me know. John Oram Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:33:11PM -0400, Mark wrote: > > The real application is with 2.4 Ghz wireless radios. They are half duplex. I > > want to take 2 (two) half duplex links, 4 radios total, and have them setup in > > transmit / receive pairs to give me "full duplex" type of operation. If it can > > be done, it will save me THOUSANDS of dollars ($$$$$$$$$). > > > > I hope that this clears things up a bit ;-) > > Much better. ;-) I think this should be doable. I suspect doing > something with netgraph and the ng_eiface node. The eiface node would > be the virtual interface and it's output would go to the input of the > sending card. The output of the recieving card would go to the other one. > I think that would work. If I remember my Ethernet basics correctly, > it won't work perfectly because of the delay before sending another > packet but I think it will work. I am wondering why you want to do this > rather then useing Bill Paul's EtherChannel module to bond a couple > links since most applications aren't symetric bandwidth users all the > time. > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=448009+451351+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-net/20010211.freebsd-net > > -- Brooks > > -- > Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. > PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message