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Date:      Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:05:20 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos)
Cc:        lconrad@Go2France.com (Len Conrad), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: T1 / E1 PCI card for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <200002102105.NAA51360@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <200002101637.LAA05863@whizzo.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at "Feb 10, 2000 11:37:40 am"

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Louis A. Mamakos writes:
> > What we are looking for is just 30 x 64 kbit incoming ISDN channels for 
> > remote access to Internet.  "remote access concentrator".
> > 
> > >channels.  Some of them might be combined with others to provide Nx64kb/s
> > 
> > I see the Portmaster 3 can bond channels even across PM3 chassis, but we 
> > would not need anything so fancy as that, as least in the first 
> > phase. 
> 
> This was different from what I had described, which is combining two
> or more 64kb/s channels into an aggregate channel of higher capacity;
> essentially a fractional-E1 (or T1).

In my (biased) opinion, the right way to handle this is to make
the card appear as a netgraph node. You configure it however
you want with control messages, then attach netgraph interfaces, etc.

Isn't this what Poul did?

-Archie

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