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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!news.sgi.com!news-out.microserve.net!news-in.microserve.net!trellis.wwnet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!van-bc!n1van.istar!van.istar!west.istar!news-w.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!lantana.singnet.com.sg!violet.singnet.com.sg!nuscc.nus.sg!csclailf From: csclailf@leonis.nus.sg (Lai L F) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Fractional T-1 with a FreeBSD router: Any tips? Date: 29 Aug 1996 05:56:55 GMT Organization: National University of Singapore Lines: 44 Message-ID: <503bf7$pa9@nuscc.nus.sg> References: <finlayson-2408960952430001@hokianga.live.com> <tporczyk.841037060@shellx> <Pine.BSF.3.91.960826150901.25460B-100000@gateway.dkstat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: csclailf@leonis.nus.sg X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] David Holloway (daveh@dkstat.com) wrote: : I agree here : getting a FreeBSD machine to link up properly with the DSU : will be quite dificult, better to go with : a PortMaster, or a Pipeline Well, actually you can try to look at those IO card that either emerging technology or SDL is selling, I manage to hook up my FreeBSD 2.1 box to the internet with a card from ET (I did not manage to get FreeBSD 2.2 to work :( ), but my line speed is only 64kbps (well lease line is extremely expensive in Singapore) but I only pay USD595 for the card ;) My FreeBSD is up for more than 2 months now and no problem at all : On 25 Aug 1996, Tony Porczyk wrote: : > finlayson@lvn.com (Ross Finlayson) writes: : > : > >I'm planning to install a 128 kbps fractional T-1 connection (possibly : > >upgrading to 384 kbps or full T-1 later), using a Pentium box running : > >FreeBSD as a router. : > >Can anyone out there who's run this configuration give me any tips (dos, : > >don'ts, gotchas)? In particular: Which I/O card did you use to interface : > >to the T-1 DSU, and did you have any problems getting it to work with : > >FreeBSD? Also, which brand of DSU did you use? : > : > Being a UNIX fanatic, I nevertheless have to ask: have you considered : > anything like Pipeline 130? : > : > t. : > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- : > Tony Porczyk * tporczyk@infobound.com * San Jose, California : > GIT/ED d++$(!d) s++:++ a? C++++ USLB++++$ P+ E--- W(--) N++ !k w-- M- V? b- : > PS+++@ PE++ O X-- Y++@ PGP-- t+@ 5++ R* D---- e* V-- h* y** r+++(*)+++(*)>? : > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- : > : > -- ============================================================================== Lai Loong Fong | email: mailto:csclailf@nus.sg Computational Science Department | WWW: http://www.cz3.nus.sg:8100/~lailf National University of Singapore | http://s130016.pc.nus.sg