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Date:      Tue, 7 Aug 2001 19:09:04 +0300
From:      Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>
To:        Max Clements <max.clements@swistgroup.com>
Cc:        kweheria@iconnect.co.ke, FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Isn't it true?
Message-ID:  <20010807190904.G35856@everest.wananchi.com>
In-Reply-To: <DEC925D2FB9081448C3D6EC26E85868C5B6A@steinmail.swistgroup.com>
References:  <DEC925D2FB9081448C3D6EC26E85868C5B6A@steinmail.swistgroup.com>

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* Max Clements <max.clements@swistgroup.com> [20010807 18:52]: writing on the subject 'RE: Isn't it true?'
Max> > Max> mmm I have done this with a four wire analogue leaed line, 2522
Max> > Max> and BSD 3.51-RELEASE, using a Sync/Async port on the cisco and running
Max> > Max> PPP over the wire, IOS11.2 with Kernel PPP on the BSD box.  Works
Max> > Max> fine... (but the stac compression does not work) and I am sure you
Max> > Max> will be able do the same with Sync serial if you can find a supported
Max> > Max> X21 or something similar adapter for the BSD box so you can connect to
Max> > Max> an E1/T1 CSU/DSU or even a DSL modem?
Max> >
Max> > You see!!!! Max has done it before! That is exactly what I wanna do. I
Max> > want to run PPP over the wire between the FreeBSD box and the Cisco > Router.
Max> 
Max> Excellent - then maybee I can help you - I managed quite easily...

I am feeling lucky already ;-)

Max> > Max, do you have a HOWTO on either the FreeBSD side or on both ends? I
Max> 
Max> Well I dont have a HOWTO - but I can give you my configs and so on, and I am
Max> sure you will be able to manage from there.

Yeppe. You may attach the configs. I am sure I can put the pieces together
to get the jigsaw on the table...


Max> > intend to use Zebra but if you recommend something else then let that be
Max> > it. The CSU/DSU is what I have and you're right about the X21
Max> > signalling. I guess I need to stick with you on this one, if you have
Max> > some time,  please.
Max> 
Max> Do you have a card for the PC that can do X21?

What kinda card are you suggesting. Definately the serial port doesn't do
this so I need a card, and I hope it can be acquired cheaply from
somewhere? What card is it? Can plug into a PCI slot??


Max> > I am working on this with a friend called Erick Kweheria, also a very
Max> > promising and upcoming network engineer.
Max> 
Max> Excellent - nice to be able to chat to someone else from Africa in this
Max> mailing list - usually just see Americans and British here...

Well, I am always on the lists (-questions, -stable and -isp, plus the
obvious -security-notifications) asking one dumb question after another
and in many cases also doing my best to contribute the 'little' that I
have learnt through the same  list, given that I _never_ attended any
formal Unix classes. It's only now that Ted Mittelstaedt ( love that
gentleman's superb contributions) is trying to coax us to accept a
certification but most people think it's not worth their time ;-) What do
you make of a FreeBSD certification? (Of course we're not mimmicking the
Redmond demon!)

Much thanks still....


-Wash

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-Pierre Gallois 

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