From owner-freebsd-atm Tue Jul 27 10: 2: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-atm@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9261414CF7 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 10:01:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA19446; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:01:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990727130004.01c9f3c0@staff.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@staff.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:00:04 -0400 To: Richard Hodges From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: NIC questions Cc: atm@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19990726222130.03ca7500@granite.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >You currently have a choice of the "en" driver or the HARP system, both of >which use "routed" PDU encapsulation. Many, many commercial products want >"bridged" encapsulation, so be sure to ask what your other end will be >using. Also ask if they will use SNAP/LLC headers (they probably will). The other ends will be most likely all Cisco Catalysts. As I mentioned before, I am just getting my feet into the ATM world, and I dont even know the questions ask, or to know if the questions I am going to ask is off the wall, so please bear with me :-) Can an ATM network have a mixture of encapsulation methods ? i.e. if I do routed encapsulation, does the other device have to only speak routed ? or can it speak a mixture ? i.e. routed to me, and bridged to other PVCs that I am not interested in. >The "en" driver works great with Adaptec and Efficient 155mb cards. HARP >works with Efficient or Fore PCA200E (not "LE") cards. In principle (!) >HARP could be persuaded to work with the Adaptec cards. Apart from the Adaptec cards, are there any other cards based on the Efficient card ? Someone mentioned on the list that the SMC works. Thanks for taking the time to shed light on this matter. As I said, I am just starting out to research this all and figure out if FreeBSD can do what I want it to do in this situation, which is provide a low cost alternative to deploying Catalysts at all my small sites. ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel 01.519.651.3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message