From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 23 08:04:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA18666 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 08:04:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA18659 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 08:04:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA06568; Thu, 23 May 1996 17:02:20 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199605231502.RAA06568@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: SDL cards To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 17:02:19 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, yves@CC.McGill.CA, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.com In-Reply-To: <3646.832853373@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "May 23, 96 05:09:33 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > My problem is related to my mbone tunnel . It tends to crash the > > Ascend Pipeline 400 or knock everyone else off the network. > > I am so pissed off about it that I am pacing back and forth thinking about > > other alternatives . > > Ach so! That's interesting. So you want your ISP to go to a > different solution on their end to talk to your PL50. It would indeed > be _very very_ interesting to verify that a FreeBSD box with the > Riscom PRI card could be an acceptable substitute for an Ascend 400! > Quite a few people would sit up and take notice of that.. :-) > > AFAIK, no one is working on this exactly problem. Unless I miss my > guess, John Hay is going to be working on the vanilla N2 boards which > are simply aimed at T1/E1 users with no complex signaling or incoming > ISDN phone calls as issues to deal with. This sounds like a slightly > different project, and one we should approach SDL again with assuming > that a) I'm not missing my guess and b) we can find someone interested > in doing the project. > > Jordan > Hmmmm. That is what I also understood, so I don't think you are missing your guess. :-) John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za