Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:00:04 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Richard Hodges <rh@source.net> Cc: atm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC questions Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990727130004.01c9f3c0@staff.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990726211857.11326E-100000@nexus6.source.net > References: <4.1.19990726222130.03ca7500@granite.sentex.ca>
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>You currently have a choice of the "en" driver or the HARP system, both of >which use "routed" PDU encapsulation. Many, many commercial products want >"bridged" encapsulation, so be sure to ask what your other end will be >using. Also ask if they will use SNAP/LLC headers (they probably will). The other ends will be most likely all Cisco Catalysts. As I mentioned before, I am just getting my feet into the ATM world, and I dont even know the questions ask, or to know if the questions I am going to ask is off the wall, so please bear with me :-) Can an ATM network have a mixture of encapsulation methods ? i.e. if I do routed encapsulation, does the other device have to only speak routed ? or can it speak a mixture ? i.e. routed to me, and bridged to other PVCs that I am not interested in. >The "en" driver works great with Adaptec and Efficient 155mb cards. HARP >works with Efficient or Fore PCA200E (not "LE") cards. In principle (!) >HARP could be persuaded to work with the Adaptec cards. Apart from the Adaptec cards, are there any other cards based on the Efficient card ? Someone mentioned on the list that the SMC works. Thanks for taking the time to shed light on this matter. As I said, I am just starting out to research this all and figure out if FreeBSD can do what I want it to do in this situation, which is provide a low cost alternative to deploying Catalysts at all my small sites. ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel 01.519.651.3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message
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