Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 16:06:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com> To: dennis@etinc.com, map@iphil.net Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG, jfarmer@goldsword.com Subject: Re: Comparison Message-ID: <199706172006.QAA04744@sabre.goldsword.com>
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On Tue Jun 17 11:06:51 1997 dennis said: >At 01:57 PM 6/17/97 +0800, you wrote: >>Hi, >> >>Jon Lewis wrote: >>> I wonder if ET has considered such a thing based on their sync cards? My >>> guess is there's so much extra hardware and software involved that anyone >>> making one of these as a PC card to be used under Unix or NT is unlikely. > >This is non-sense, but the market for unix is way too small and NT probably >doesnt have the hooks to do it properly. It IS a big project, and to do EI >would >require getting tons of approvals and testing sites......but channelized T1 is >more reasonable. We dont plan on doing it though. Can't do everything, and >selling unix into high-end scenarios is a tough job. > >> >>Perhaps. However I am interested, and I'm sure many other folks are, >>in the interests of ease-of-management. Channelized E1 gear such as >>the Ascend MAX 4000 support a whole lot of stuff like ISDN and frame >>which we cannot use anyway, but add to the cost (fantastic!) I'm coming into this in the middle so to speak, and so I'm not sure what exactly was being discussed but it sounds like it's related to something that I'm interested in, that is ISDN interfaces for BRI & PRI that will operate under FreeBSD. So far, what I've seen are some older cards that used to work under FreeBSD. What I would like to be able to do is to use it for PPP & MPP. If it could accept "voice/modem" calls (aka k56) that would be a win also. I suppose that what I want is to able to add the ability of an Ascend 1800 or 2000 to a FreeBSD box :^> (Max 1800 handles 8 BRI's, supports upto 16 64k ppp links for ~ $6k. Add ~$5k & it supports 16 k56/33.6 channels. The 2000 does the same using a PRI.) So any ideas? John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John T. Farmer Proprietor, GoldSword Systems jfarmer@goldsword.com Public Internet Access in East Tennessee dial-in (423)470-9953 for info, e-mail to info@goldsword.com Network Design, Internet Services & Servers, Consulting
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