Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 21:51:16 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "MurrayTaylor" <MurrayTaylor@bytecraftsystems.com>, "Odhiambo Washington" <wash@wananchi.com>, "FBSD-Q" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <kweheria@iconnect.co.ke> Subject: RE: Isn't it true? Message-ID: <000001c1208e$ec519920$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <004201c11fd6$b61cfce0$2a7627cb@bytecraft.au.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: MurrayTaylor [mailto:MurrayTaylor@bytecraftsystems.com] >Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 11:53 PM >> >Here Down under in Australia I am using the WANic 405 card and the netgraph >stuff for a frame relay link (currently 128kbit max on copper) for our ISP >link, and will be adding a second DLCI (DLCI == logical port for want of >the full description) for a Melbourne - Sydney link. (uses the sr driver >which get netgraphified once you rebuilt the kernel with options NETGRAPH >and >the sr driver > >[=====] +--+---+-----+ >[ ISP ]----DLCIa--+--(NTU)--|sr|ng0| | >[=====] | | +---+ | > | | |ng1| | >[=====] | +--+---+ | >[ SYD ]----DLBIb--+ | | >[=====] +------------+ > >Works great .... and as the WANic 405 is capable of 2Mbit, if we need more >bandwidth, we can easily step up to an optical Network Terminal Unit from >Telstra. > >netgraph 0 (ng0) is the 'interface' to the ISP >netgraph 1 (ng1) is the 'interface' to Sydney > >Sydney has a similar WANic - netgraph setup > >And this is just using one of the two ports on the WANic... > You may be interested in a patch that Rod Grimes wrote for the sr driver that corrects an interrupt handling problem. It's useful for high loads. (128K is NOT a high load) Also, you only really need the netgraph stuff for Frame Relay. The sr driver itself supports both PPP and Cisco HDLC. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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