Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 08:41:23 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Len Conrad <lconrad@go2france.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: T1 / E1 PCI card for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <38A2DC23.9A4E995@softweyr.com> References: <20000209151455.8E6471F17@bert.kts.org> <4.2.2.20000208185157.00c97100@mail.Go2France.com> <4.2.2.20000209191939.060d58a0@mail.Go2France.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Len Conrad wrote:
>
> dave@LanMedia.com tells me their P1200 E1 card, with FreeBSD drive, can't
> work in channelized mode (like the etinc cards can't). Their LMC150xM
> cards can do channelized, but don't have a FreeBSD driver, but their
> FreeBSD guy is looking at it.
>
> Any hacker care to explain how a channelized T1/E1 (24 or 30 separate ip
> streams) would be seen within FreeBSD? ifconfig setup? Would we have to
> assign 30 fixed ip addresses to these "virtual/channel" ip interfaces?
Fixed, DHCP, PPP-assigned, whatever. Individual addresses would certainly
be the easiest way to use them, unless you're going to do aggregation at the
link layer. Sorry, my knowlege of channelized T1 doesn't extend quite that
far down.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?38A2DC23.9A4E995>