From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 27 09:59:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA20434 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jan 1996 09:59:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA20429 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 1996 09:59:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp-082.etinc.com (ppp-082.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA07923; Sat, 27 Jan 1996 12:58:01 -0500 Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 12:58:01 -0500 Message-Id: <199601271758.MAA07923@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: tim@sssun.spb.su From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: RE:Multi-Port Async Cards Cc: hackers@freebsd.org 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. How far away is the driver from being "good"? I have no problem with NDAs? Does this hold for all of their boards? or only certain high end ones? 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