TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction ................. 1 2. Card installation ..............2 3. Drivers installation .............. 3 3.1. Linux drivers ..............3 3.2. FreeBSD drivers .............. 5 3.3. Using sethdlc ..............6 4. Frame Relay setup .............. 9 5. Technical data ..............10 6.
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Introduction ® The intelligent Tahoe 970 series PCI interface cards are equipped with one or two G.703 ports working with throughputs up to 2048 kbps. The use of E1 streams never was that easy - now the data stream may be plugged directly into the PC and the operating system treats it as a regular network interface.
Card installation Following steps should be taken to install the card: disconnect the power cable from the power supply remove the case find an unoccupied PCI slot unscrew the masking plate in the rear of the free PCI slot insert the card into the slot (the card connectors should be accessible through the rear opening in the case) screw on the card firmly to the case close the case and switch the power on...
Drivers installation ® Tahoe WAN PCI cards are supplied with Linux and FreeBSD drivers. The Linux drivers consist of two parts: a patch for the Linux kernel a sethdlc utility used to configure the card The FreeBSD drivers consist of:...
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If everything works fine, you can add a line ‘default = Tahoe' to the /etc/lilo.conf file and type 'lilo', so the kernel labeled 'Tahoe' will be the default one used at the system boot.
In the /var/log/messages file you should see messages confirming successful loading of the drivers and detecting a card: kernel: Tahoe 9xx driver version: 1.15t kernel: Tahoe972: 256 KB RAM at 0xd9000000, IRQ5, using 10 TX + 75 RX packets rings...
4.8. Now it can be loaded using kldload if_th command or by bringing the interface up: ifconfig th0 up. One interface - th0 - is added when using one-port card and two interfaces - th0 and th1 - when using two- port card.
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packets sent through the interface is the time, after which in case of no reception timeout value of keepalive frames the link is treated as unusable Frame Relay: sethdlc hdlc0 fr [lmi type [parameter]] where: is the LMI type: type none ansi ccitt is a Frame Relay protocol parameter: dce (Linux...
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3.3.3. CRC4 checksum 3.3.3 The command below enables and disables, respectively, the CRC4 checksum transmission: sethdlc hdlc0 crc4 on sethdlc hdlc0 crc4 off 3.3.4 3.3.4. Port range and sensivity selection The command below switches betweed short haul (50m range) and long haul (2000m range) mode: sethdlc hdlc0 short sethdlc hdlc0 long...
Configuring the Frame Relay After setting up a connection to the Frame Relay network, user is usually supplied with following information: LMI signaling: ANSI DLCI number: Remote router address: 194.204.100.129 Client router address: 194.204.100.130 WAN link subnet: 194.204.100.128 Subnet mask: 255.255.255.252 After compiling and installing the drivers described below commands should be issued to configure the Frame Relay access - set...
-12 dB or -43 dB reach: 50 m or 2000 m PCI connector: 32-bit, 5V, 33MHz, PCI v2.1 compliant maximum power consumption: Tahoe 971 630 mA @ 5V (3,15W) Tahoe 972 700 mA @ 5V (3,50W) environmental conditions: storage: temperature -20°C to 65°C...
Declaration of Conformity TAHOE Piotr Kaczmarzyk ul. Uniwersytecka 1 50-951 Wroclaw, Poland We declare that the products Tahoe 971 and Tahoe 972 comply with the regulations of the following European Directives: 73/23/EEC low voltage safety requirements 89/336/EEC EMC requirements 99/5/EEC radio &...
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