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Date:      Thu, 14 Nov 1996 12:06:50 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
To:        jdd@vbc.net (Jim Dixon)
Cc:        isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Decision in Router Purchase
Message-ID:  <199611141006.MAA09719@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.961114095613.14610J-100000@avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net> from Jim Dixon at "Nov 14, 96 09:57:50 am"

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> On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, John Hay wrote:
> 
> > > The problem with the SDL cards is the lack of FreeBSD drivers.  There
> > > is a driver for the N2d but not for the N2pci.  The ET driver software
> > > suppports more protocols and some degree of compression.
> > 
> > There is support for the N2 and N2pci cards in FreeBSD-current and 2.2. I
> > have commited a driver a few weeks ago. The N2d I don't know about. I
> > think it is a card with a builtin NTU. Here in South Africa we have to
> > use the Telkom supplied NTU's so I didn't add support for it.
> 
> As I recall the N2 is a single port card, the N2d (d for dual) is a two
> port card, and the N2csu has the built-in csu/dsu (American for NTU).
>  

Yes you are right. I got confused a bit. :-/ The driver support both the
single and dual cards. I don't know what will be needed to add support
for the N2csu. I assume that the current driver will probably only need
some minor tweaks to work with it.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za



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