From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 21 23:27:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D8137B423 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:27:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 18CDB6A901; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:27:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sv.Go2France.com [212.73.210.79] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.04) id ACB0CA210086; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:31:12 +0200 Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20000922081407.02ed6370@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: lconrad%Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:27:26 +0200 To: Wes Peters From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: low-cost/low-speed HDLC WAN card Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <39CA90BF.8DEC13D0@softweyr.com> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20000921123747.05ec3600@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I'm back again looking for a low-cost, 128 kbits/sec WAN card, even > > ISA, single-port with HDLC V.35/X.21/V.11/EIA530. I need this to > > drive leased-line links in France. > > > > etinc.com's got a 10-year-old model 5025 ISA card but it's $475 and 2 > > megabits. We use two now in our ISP and it works fine, but to use > > FreeBSD in a big nationwide VPN/IPsec project, we need to keep > the price down. > > > > We can buy a Zyxel 153X WAN router for about that price, but it > > doesn't do VPN nor more than one ethernet i/f nor does it's > > non-loggable, limited packet filtering come anywhere near ipfilter. > >This may sound heretical, but have you considered using the router AND a >FreeBSD firewall? Yes, of course, this is precisely our approach for the ISDN local loop, with the sweet little Zyxel 128 ISDN router/bridge as our "ISDN-to-Ethernet" bridge (no ip in Zyxel), since we think Zyxel ISDN functions are well ahead/proven vs what we can accomplish with the ISDN card/drivers for FreeBSD. Dennis/etinc is calling me silly for not asking for a discount on his cards, so I'll see how low he can go. But we've realized that the 1U and 2U boxes have PCI risers, not ISA risers. Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message