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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!cs61a-bf From: cs61a-bf@kiowa.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Geordan Rosario) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ISDN and FreeBSD Date: 10 Jul 1995 22:30:57 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3ts9n1$ehu@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3thdbm$sie@agate.berkeley.edu> <kehletDBFEK8.7zr@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiowa.cs.berkeley.edu In article <kehletDBFEK8.7zr@netcom.com>, Steven Kehlet <kehlet@netcom.com> wrote: >I'd like to know some more about this too. I work for an ISP that offers isdn >connections, and through them I'm getting something new by Motorola called the >``BitSurfr'', which plugs into a serial port and does ppp over one channel of >an isdn line. It costs about $350(?). The idea of this is to completely hide >the isdn part; to your computer, it will just look like another modem, on a >serial port, doing ppp... but at 56k (at least, I hope it's going to be this >easy.. ;-). > Ah... unfortunately I don't have PPP enabled in the kernel and I don't have the space for the source tree... unless someone out there can tell me how to recompile from the 2.0-R CDROM. It does sound promising, though. Does it support bonding? >This, of course, requires an isdn-capable phone line in the house.. (call >Pac Bell, or your local provider...) > I've been chatting with Pac Bell. Their rates seem pretty darn good, for what you get. (And yes, my line is ISDN capable! A round of waters all around!) -Geordan -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Geordan Rosario |Computer Science 61A|Running amuck on Hewlett Packard geordan@ocf.berkeley.edu |Run OS/2 and FreeBSD| machines! cs61a-bf@cs.berkeley.edu | Fight Microsoft! +--------------------------------