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Pre-alpha Frame Relay driver available for Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Tue Aug 22 05:22:24 1995
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 15:20:33 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Jim Freeman <jfree@sovereign.sovereign.org>
Subject: Pre-alpha Frame Relay driver available for Linux
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.networking
Organization: Sovereign Software R & D
Keywords: Linux Frame-Relay
A pre-alpha Linux Frame Relay driver is available for the
Sangoma S502 Frame Relay card (a Z80 co-processed ISA card)
via ftp://ftp.sovereign.org/pub/wan/fr/s502fr.tgz
or ftp://www.caldera.com/pub/wan/fr/s502fr.tgz
(see http://www.sovereign.org/ for current info).
The intent is to provide a low-cost Internet access system/gateway.
The Web site mentioned above describes how to use Linux running
on a commodity PC with an inexpensive Frame Relay card and CSU/DSU
to achieve this end. The system can be used simultaneously
for other useful work.
The hardware (card and CSU/DSU) costs ~$600-$700, and in Utah
the Frame Relay connection cost $375 to install + $80.04/month
(within the state, FR costs are not time/distance sensitive,
unlike ISDN or leased-line). Internet costs depend on your
provider (I connect through work, 45 miles away).
Possible uses:
Telecommuting
Small ISPs
Education (k12, home, distance learning)
Business (Home or small/medium)
Distributed collaborative projects
Virtual organizations
Remote consulting
The driver (while still immature) is sufficiently usable
on a 386DX/40 for me to run Usenet News (INN, small feed),
e-mail, an FTP site, a Web-site, a Web browser, and remote
access to work (via X).
Questions, comments, e-mail (after 8/23) to
jfree@sovereign.org
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