From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 24 19:12:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA28690 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 May 1996 19:12:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA28685 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 19:12:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-usr11.etinc.com (dialup-usr11.etinc.com [204.141.95.132]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA02266; Fri, 24 May 1996 22:18:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 22:18:00 -0400 Message-Id: <199605250218.WAA02266@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: Michael Hancock From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Subject: Re: SDL cards Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >On Fri, 24 May 1996, Dennis wrote: > >> >Granted. Ascends are very very nice. >> > >> >But there is no hack value. An ISDN-only solution using a P6 box with 3 >> >busmastering SDLComm RISCom/Pri cards handling 69 incoming ISDN >> >connections with STAC compression would be very cool. >> >> Yes and so would a molecular partical transporter :-) > >69 B-channels at 64kpbs not 69 PRIs at 1.5Mbps. Is this more than rocket >science? no, but a lofty goal at this point in the game, i think. Lets just say that you'd better see the beast before you try to tackle it. 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