From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 1 6:46:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7365915377 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 06:45:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@cygnus.rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA16752; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:45:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:45:37 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: James Van Vleet Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a serial mux? (Serial <-> FreeBSD <-> WAN <-> FreeBSD <-> Serial) In-Reply-To: <000301be63d9$475a35e0$17c25c8b@javlaptop.dms-corp.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, James Van Vleet wrote: > > I found this question a few times in my mailing list searches, but couldn't > find an answer. If I have the wrong mailing list, please let me know. I > have tried -questions with no luck. > > Is there a way to use FreeBSD as a serial mux? What I want to do is > replace an existing leased line that is connected to serial multiplexers > with a more modern WAN (TCP/IP) connection. The downside is that I still > need to provide the serial muxing connection. So really what I need is a > way to remotely run some terminals that are proprietary enough to not have > emulation, as in serial in one server and serial out the other server. This > seems useful enough that I would be surprised is someone has not already > done it (without requiring some expensive terminal servers!) Any thoughts or > suggestions are appreciated. Whistle Communications has a set of patches for freebsd that allow this to be done in kernel, the interface to the code doesn't seem too bad either. You can pick it up at: ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/netgraph/index.html I'm looking into using it for round robin based web load balancing, the reason that it's so appealing is that it is _in kernel_ meaning fast, fast, fast, and very modular. -Alfred > > -James > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message