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From: Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de (Pascal Gienger)
Subject: Re: What's the state of ISDN support ?
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Tom Lislegaard <tl@cmr.no> wrote:
: Are there any drivers available for ISDN adapters capable of PPP ?
: If not, can someone tell me if there's any serious development
: going on in this area.
: I'm under a certain pressure to start supporting ISDN on
: our dialup-servers, and hate the idea of having to switch to Linux.

For that purpose wouldn't it be better to use Shivas or Ascends? Or at
least ISDN Terminal adapters connected via serial line? Nowadays ISDN Termi-
nal adapters aren't so much more expensive than good modems. Setup on
the dialup server is also simplier (it is like for a modem).

Pascal
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