From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 10 13: 6:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bubba.whistle.com (bubba.whistle.com [207.76.205.7]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86889452E for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:06:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id NAA51360; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:05:20 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200002102105.NAA51360@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: T1 / E1 PCI card for FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <200002101637.LAA05863@whizzo.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at "Feb 10, 2000 11:37:40 am" To: louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:05:20 -0800 (PST) Cc: lconrad@Go2France.com (Len Conrad), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Louis A. Mamakos writes: > > What we are looking for is just 30 x 64 kbit incoming ISDN channels for > > remote access to Internet. "remote access concentrator". > > > > >channels. Some of them might be combined with others to provide Nx64kb/s > > > > I see the Portmaster 3 can bond channels even across PM3 chassis, but we > > would not need anything so fancy as that, as least in the first > > phase. > > This was different from what I had described, which is combining two > or more 64kb/s channels into an aggregate channel of higher capacity; > essentially a fractional-E1 (or T1). In my (biased) opinion, the right way to handle this is to make the card appear as a netgraph node. You configure it however you want with control messages, then attach netgraph interfaces, etc. Isn't this what Poul did? -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message