Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 12:40:41 -0500 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: hm@altona.hamburg.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards Message-ID: <199601271740.MAA07892@etinc.com>
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> >> >I've heard about bugs and problems with different driver.....but not much >> >positive feedback. What is the "product of choice" for doing multi-port >> >async dial-in with Freebsd....as of the moment? > >> Might I infer from the fact that no-one seems to have a (positive) opinion >> about this that FreeBSD is a particularly bad choice for this and Linux >> should be recommended? > >Some weeks ago i asked a similar question. I got one recommendation: a >Boca Board - which seems to run fine at several sites but had a problem >with autodetection at boot time. I could not find a distributor for it >here in Germany. > >Also i contacted the german distributor for the Cyclades product line >because i heard some good things about the product line. I was told, >that the FreeBSD driver does not work good, but someone in Germany hacked >a good running version - i could not locate him. I scanned the mail archives >for Cyclades and saw that there was some flameing going on about the cy >driver and that someone else had written a driver which works but which >needs mgetty. I don't like needing mgetty. Nothing against mgetty, but >i want to get along with getty if i want. Other than this, the Cycaldes >product looked very promising, but without a working driver ... > >Finally someone in the company i'm working for put an ancient AST "Cluster >Controller" on my desk, 4 full modem ports equipped with 8250's and just >one IRQ needed. AST Germany was VERY helpful in getting the dip switch >settings for this ancient board, it is fully supported by sio and it runs >without any problems - i'm fully satisfied. This scenario is frightening to me....although I think that you've answered my question......Its the final straw I think in making FreeBSD marketable...obviously the AST solution is unacceptable for a real ISP....I wonder why the cyclades board needs mgetty.....whats the major diff between getty and mgetty? 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
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