[nycbug-talk] T1 cards and PFSense

[Peter Wright]

> On Tue 2007.05.01 at 17:15 -0400, George Rosamond wrote:
>> Chris Buechler wrote:
>> > Hey George, all,
>> >
>> > George Rosamond wrote:
>> >> George Rosamond wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Has anyone happily used Sangoma T1 cards on a PFSense firewall. .
>> >>>  .?
>> >>>
>> >>> George
>> >>>
>> >> This is a general answer:
>> >>
>> >> http://faq.pfsense.org/index.php?action=artikel&cat=2&id=114&artlang=en
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> stating that "At this time, there is no support for any T1, E1,
>> >> frame relay, or similar equipment."
>> >>
>> >> But not sure if that includes T1cards. . . although most likely . .
>> >>  .
>> >>
>> >
>> > Yep, no T1 support at all. None of the developers have the hardware
>> > nor test equipment to make it happen.
>> >
>> > But, somebody popped up yesterday with a working setup, and sounds
>> > like he may implement it in the GUI.
>> > http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,4628.msg28196.html (cmb is
>> > me)
>> >
>>
>> Nice. . .
>>
>> > Even with someone saying they'll implement it, from past experience I
>> >  give it maybe a 25% chance of happening.
>> >
>> > If that guy doesn't do it, for any of the existing developers to take
>> >  on that project it'll likely take a bounty from a corporate sponsor
>> > to supply the hardware and pay for the development to be done.
>> >
>> > Cheers, Chris
>>
>> Ahh. . .
>>
>> Well, I'd strongly recommend you contacting Sangoma directly, as I know
>> they are quite friendly to open source projects, including the BSDs.
>>
>> For T1 access, there are vendors some of us could speak to about access
>> at various colos. . . then we'd need remote console access, I'd guess.
>
> i'm sorry, but bugging hardware vendors for hardware for GUI
> applications is a waste, imho.  the device drivers already exist.


hmm...that's a tough one IMHO.  i view PFSense as more of an appliance, so
while sure the drivers do exist for the underlying OS - i can see how it
would be helpful for the dev. to have access to "exotic" hardware to get
it working and tested correctly.

my reasoning is that the presentation layer is pretty tightly coupled with
the kernel{drivers}/OS layer with appliances such as this.

-p


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