Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:45:37 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@cygnus.rush.net> To: James Van Vleet <jamesvv@ibm.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a serial mux? (Serial <-> FreeBSD <-> WAN <-> FreeBSD <-> Serial) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990301094307.7848f-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <000301be63d9$475a35e0$17c25c8b@javlaptop.dms-corp.co.uk>
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On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, James Van Vleet wrote: > > I found this question a few times in my mailing list searches, but couldn't > find an answer. If I have the wrong mailing list, please let me know. I > have tried -questions with no luck. > > Is there a way to use FreeBSD as a serial mux? What I want to do is > replace an existing leased line that is connected to serial multiplexers > with a more modern WAN (TCP/IP) connection. The downside is that I still > need to provide the serial muxing connection. So really what I need is a > way to remotely run some terminals that are proprietary enough to not have > emulation, as in serial in one server and serial out the other server. This > seems useful enough that I would be surprised is someone has not already > done it (without requiring some expensive terminal servers!) Any thoughts or > suggestions are appreciated. Whistle Communications has a set of patches for freebsd that allow this to be done in kernel, the interface to the code doesn't seem too bad either. You can pick it up at: ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/netgraph/index.html I'm looking into using it for round robin based web load balancing, the reason that it's so appealing is that it is _in kernel_ meaning fast, fast, fast, and very modular. -Alfred > > -James > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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