[nsp] kentrox hdlc

Gert Doering gert at greenie.muc.de
Sun Feb 29 02:54:48 EST 2004


Hi,

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:35:07PM +0100, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> What I want to do is basically connect a cisco router with HSSI card to a 
> kentrox T3 DSU at one end, and have a Linux box with PCI T3 card at the 
> other end. The T3 card drivers already understand standard HDLC and cisco 
> HDLC, but not Kentrox HDLC. I would like to modify it to also handle 
> kentrox HDLC, but I need more information on Kentrox HDLC to do that...

There's no "kentrox HDLC".  This level of framing is done by the host on
the HSSI interface - so it would be Cisco HDLC.

An easier approach would be to always use PPP.  It's well-standardized,
you can beat vendors with the RFCs if needed, and has no major 
disadvantages anymore.

gert
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