Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 12:00:12 -0500 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: hm@altona.hamburg.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards Message-ID: <199601281700.MAA09533@etinc.com>
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>>From the keyboard of dennis: > >> the AST solution is unacceptable for a real ISP....I wonder why the cyclades >> board needs mgetty.....whats the major diff between getty and mgetty? > >As far as i understood it the situation is like this: the 2.1 driver has >some (please correct me if i'm wrong !!) problems and so Brian Litzinger >(sp?) wrote a replacement driver. This driver needs a) a hardware >modification in the plugs and b) need mgetty because the interlock between >incoming and outgoing calls is not done in the driver (so it must be done >with mgetty). a) and b) are not acceptable for my purposes. > >Someone else wrote that the -current Cyclades driver works fine. Has someone >backported the diffs to 2.1 or -stable yet ? > >Are there any _first-hand_ 2.1/-stable experiences with any Cyclades driver ? Which cyclades driver is this ( I understand they have multiple boards)? Has anyone seen (or touched) their new PCI board? Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous PC Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX.
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