Re: Cisco killing project...

[Chris Cappuccio <chris@nmedia.net>]

Ok, I feel stupid now.  The Cyclades card looks rather interesting.  If the
Cyclades driver under OpenBSD works with it, you could probably use getty or a
hack of getty to call user-land ppp (which supports radius)...

Brian Palmer (SDSI) [bpalmer@secured-services.com] wrote:
> Cyclades would disagree.  http://www.cyclades.com/products/products.php?id=5
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Cappuccio [mailto:chris@nmedia.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 3:41 PM
> To: Marina Brown
> Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Cisco killing project...
> 
> 
> There is no card you can use in any computer with any operating system that
> will
> give you modems with a digital T1 connection to the phone network.  You
> should just patch your Ciscos.  The closest you can come to serving digital
> modems on a PC is to use those modems with ISDN ports that can do a full
> digital connection.  Naturally you need to have a digital connection to the
> phone network to provide v.90/56K service.
> 
> Marina Brown [marina@surferz.net] wrote:
> > Hi All:
> > 
> >    We have been having a lot of troubles with our Cisco
> > dialup servers being DOS'd by the Nacci worm and other
> > odd traffic that is now on the internet.
> > 
> > We have 2 AS5200's that have been heavilly degraded by
> > the worms.
> > 
> > I have been thinking of building our new access servers
> > using OpenBSD and T1 cards (probably cyclades).
> > 
> > Has anyone else done this ? The OpenBSD access servers
> > will need to authenticate from a radius server.
> > 
> > Marina Brown
> 
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