From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 26 22:51:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA28803 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 22:51:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sssun.spb.su (root@news.spb.su [193.124.83.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA28798 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 22:51:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by sssun.spb.su id AA08082 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Sat, 27 Jan 1996 09:47:52 +0300 To: dennis , hackers@freebsd.org References: <199601261554.KAA05222@etinc.com> In-Reply-To: <199601261554.KAA05222@etinc.com>; from dennis at Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:54:35 -0500 Message-Id: Organization: RELCOM Corp., St.Petersburg Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 09:47:51 +0300 From: Andrew Timonin Reply-To: tim@sssun.spb.su Subject: RE:Multi-Port Async Cards Lines: 33 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In message <199601261554.KAA05222@etinc.com> dennis writes: >>I've heard about bugs and problems with different driver.....but not much >>positive feedback. What is the "product of choice" for doing multi-port >>async dial-in with Freebsd....as of the moment? >> >>Dennis >> >Might I infer from the fact that no-one seems to have a (positive) opinion about >this that FreeBSD is a particularly bad choice for this and Linux should be >recommended? I think no. Linux have just the same problems with multiport cards as FreeBSD. From technical point of view I myself would prefer some Digiboard, but because of a very restrictive policy of this company on the design of inner parts of card design it's nearly impossible to implement a good driver without a NDA. >Dennis >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com >Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For >Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame >Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD >and LINUX -- Andrew A. Timonin E-mail tim@sssun.spb.su, St.Petersburg phone: office: +7 (812) 1106762 Russia private: +7 (812) 2540779