I am evaluating both the S508 and S508/FT1 at the present time and
have both models running on FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE. Had to add a fourth
parameter to one of the function calls in ptpipe.c to get it to compile.
They appear easy to turn up and reliable. The PPIPEMON Windows utility
is useful with only a couple of bugs. It has an FT1 monitor that is a
replica of a BAT FT1. I would guess that the onboard FT1 was designed
by BAT. Full source is available.
The primary weakness is the lack of technical support (depth, not
willingness) for FreeBSD and for this reason, we may not go further with
them. The fbsd maintenance programs are a little buggy (ppipemon,
ft1config) and need some tweaking. Incorrect usage can lock up a machine
instead of failing gracefully. My message log is filling up with `Read
mailbox' messages every time the card returns a response to a query. All
in all, probably a 95% implementation.
Incorporating the drivers into the distribution and having a FreeBSD
sponsor to maintain the patches required for new releases would go a long
way towards meeting our requirements for stable, standard, maintained
code and would certainly make this well-designed synch card more popular
in the FreeBSD community. Plus David Mandelstam is a nice guy to do
business with.
I can furnish the diffs for 3.2-RELEASE.
Jim Flowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#4 ISP on C|NET, #1 in Ohio
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Eric A. Griff wrote:
>
> At the same time, sangoma is short on programmers, and hasn't someone to
> devote to FreeBSD/linux.. The linux community has helped them... Dave
>
> I don't think it would take to much to match the tools they have for NT,
> on FreeBSD. Further, I think picoBSD could be used to make a better
> troubleshooting program on a disk that might help better help debug issues
> between external CSU/DSU, and the wanpipe.
>
> I am going to give them the updated code later today, and talk about if
> it could be included in the FreeBSD distrib.. CORE: Could this be added by
> someone b4 3.3 if they agree? Would probably lead to a little more coverage
> on there home page as well.. They aren't a bad company, and the Wanpipe
> ptpipe driver worked pretty good, along with the card =).. The main changes
> are sys/i386/isa/ptpipe.[ch], and an entry in sys/i386/conf/files.i386, and
> of course a line in the KERNEL CONFIG file.
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