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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: ISDN TA's supported for BSD Unix?
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Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 09:08:25 GMT
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>> On Sat, 01 Feb 1997 11:44:51 -0800, dkulp@cse.ucsc.edu (David Kulp) said:
DK> I'm investigating ISDN and am trying to determine the correct
DK> TA or router to buy for a PC running BSD Unix. Do the TA's require
DK> special drivers for the serial port which are win32 apps, or are
DK> there drivers for some TAs that run on BSD? (I couldn't find any
DK> mention of this in the BSD handbook.) I'm guessing that the easier
DK> option is to get an ISDN router and an ethernet card, but this is
DK> a significantly more expensive option.
DK> Anyone out there with experience here? I would guess that there
DK> are a few of you BSD folks running network services on ISDN.
I had an internal ISDN TA first (a Teles, very popular in Germany and
the Netherlands). These require special drivers of course, but are
very cheap. For FreeBSD the drivers aren't quite there yet (almost,
but I've been hearing that for a long time).
So I bought an external TA which connects to the serial port. These
are much cheaper than ISDN routers with ethernet, yet they don't
require special drivers either. I have a Zyxel Omni TA128. I can use
the normal PPP (user of kernel PPP). The Zyxel converts the async PPP
(serial line) to so called sync PPP, which is what almost all ISDN
ISP's offer.
So it works without special software and without any problem (with all
OS'ses that support PPP).
If you really want a cheap internal TA you'll have to run Linux for
the moment.
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