-------- In message <3f4a7247-e711-c65a-d973-c929ac872...@freebsd.org>, Stefan Esser writes: >Am 04.01.18 um 00:41 schrieb Pedro Giffuni:
>It appears to be a strange beast that uses the Ethernet chip to generate a >bit stream which is then converted to HDLC. Not sure whether these were used >for Frame Relay or to connect to the British X.25 JANET, a few decades ago. >Perhaps also to connect to SS7 signaling networks? They were actually pretty versatile, we used them both for "blank" E1 and Nx64 scenarios, and I know they were used for Frame Relay several places in US. I don't think they could do SS7 or ISDN like the MUSYCC chip could. But nobody uses T1/E1/T3/E3 lines any more for anything... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
