[nycbug-talk] T1 cards and PFSense

[Okan Demirmen]

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.