From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 17 15:54:22 2001 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 4B2C837B403 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:54:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id B776B16B13 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:54:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from IBM-HIRXKN66F0W.Go2France.com [66.64.14.18] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AE4F69B00C4; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 01:03:43 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011017175006.051ac3e0@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:53:27 -0500 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: FYI: Cyclades PC300, PC400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG some snipping done: >Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:21:55 -0700 (PDT) >From: Cyclades Technical Support >To: Len Conrad >Subject: Re: PC400 >X-Virus-Scanned: by VirusGate.MEIway.com >X-RCPT-TO: > >Hi Len, > My answers are below. >Regards, > >Al Roth > >On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Len Conrad wrote: > > > Hi Al, > > > > ok, so the PC400 can support "clear-channel", ie, non-channelized > > operation, it seems? > > > > >These are primarily limitations in FreeBSD. > > >There are many more options available in Linux, including Frame > > >Relay support. > > > > oh, I see. It's your FreeBSD driver that isn't as sophisticated as your > > Linux driver? > >Actually, the problem is in the FreeBSD support, not the driver > > > > > You FreeBSD support for the PC400 includes FreeBSD 4.4? > > > >There currently is not a FreeBSD driver for PC400. > > > In the case where I use two or more PC400's to accept, say, 4 T1's, is > > there any outbound loadbalancing where the 4 T1's are going to the same > > upstream, who in turn is doing downstream-load balancing? This load > > balanced, multi-T1 setup seems to be the common way to go above 1.5 > > mbits/sec without going to a full or fractionalized DS3. > > > >Load balancing is an OS issue, not a driver issue. In the case of Linux >2.4.4 and greater, we are able to support MultiLink PPP, so multiple T1 >lines can be combined to increase bandwidth. -------------------------- So they've got some FreeBSD support, but say its weaker driver is due to FreeBSD. hmmmm Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message