From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 05:46:06 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id FAA09101 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 05:46:06 -0700 Received: from haven.ios.com (haven.ios.com [198.4.75.45]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA09095 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 05:46:05 -0700 Received: (from rashid@localhost) by haven.ios.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA25513; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 08:48:46 -0400 From: "Rashid Karimov." Message-Id: <199508041248.IAA25513@haven.ios.com> Subject: Re: How to use Frame Relay line with FreeBSD To: melvin@zytek.com (Stephen Melvin) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 08:48:46 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199508041112.EAA04327@syzygy.zytek.com> from "Stephen Melvin" at Aug 4, 95 04:12:10 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1143 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi there, > Greetings, > > I'm setting up a system using FreeBSD and a 56K frame relay line to the rest > of the world. This is a small IPP where most of the traffic will be between > the FreeBSD box and the Internet, but there will eventually be other local > machines as terminals. I'd like to minimize cost and retain the flexibility > that we all know and love (I've been using FreeBSD in two different modem > based installations for almost a year). Here are what I consider the options > given my admittedly limited understanding of the situation: The thing is that Frame Relay imposes extra encapsulation on IP/whatever traffic , so you have to get the device which will be able to deal with it. DSU's themselves can't handle it and I'm not sure if there are the serial drivers with this functionality ( line discipline ? ). Futhermore there should be a way for you to tell to the whatever device you'll use the DLCI <----> IP addrs. configuration. Anyway, I'd rather go for some stripped version of Livingston or CISCO 2500 - with single serial port and ethernet. Should be somewhere in $2K range. Rashid