sangoma T1 drivers.

[Eric A. Griff <setjmp at charter.net>]

> I have a project i've been working in which we need a T1 nic for a FreeBSD
box.
> We found out about Sangoma through soekris. They have FreeBSD drivers for
4.x
> and 5.x. I asked if they had any problems with these drivers being
distributed
> with any of the Open Src operating system out there and they said its
already
> part of OpenBSD. Which leads me to my question :). Is anyone working on
> integrating there drivers into FreeBSD? The drivers are called "wanpipe".
>
> If anyone would like to play around with the drivers here the url.
>
> ftp://ftp.sangoma.com/FreeBSD/current_wanpipe/wanpipe-fbsd-2.7.5-13.tgz
> Again this is a FreeBSD package. It has a setup script that will walk you
> through the initial config and recompile of your kernel.
>
> I also have a contact at Sangoma should anyone want to discuss this with
> Sangoma.
>
>
> ... maybe even part of 5.4? ... :)
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John,

    Just wanted to mention, in the past, I have had great luck with Sangoma,
though it seems they always have their own driver/infrastructure... Way back
when 4.x was in it's earlier days, I had a lot of dealing with them, and
tried to kick a little convo between David there and JKH. Though didn't seem
to materialize, though Jordon definitely suggested the (then new)
infrastructure for drivers.

    As far as the Sangoma cards, I've never had a problem with them (ISA,
PCI, with and without the FT1, etc).

    As far as their drivers, it always worked decent, though was an extra
step to build, and did install out of standard places. Though at the same
time, at least back then when they had Alex doing the FreeBSD side of it,
when there were problems, we'd be on the phone and figuring it out together.
If there was a problem there, he really wanted to get to the bottom of it
and solve it. And there weren't that many...

    It would be neat to see a natively integrated version of the drivers
though. Would be neat to plug them thru the netgraph stuff too well :)
(hint)..

    Just my 2 cents. Have a great day!

Sincerely,
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