From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 10 7:35:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85BEE449E for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:35:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id HAA25043; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:35:19 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id HAA21214; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:35:19 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id HAA00525; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:35:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38A2DC23.9A4E995@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 08:41:23 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: T1 / E1 PCI card for FreeBSD? References: <20000209151455.8E6471F17@bert.kts.org> <4.2.2.20000208185157.00c97100@mail.Go2France.com> <4.2.2.20000209191939.060d58a0@mail.Go2France.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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