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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Cheap ISDN solutions [was: What's the state of ISDN support?] Date: 23 Apr 1997 22:32:18 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5jm2li$4bf@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33303AE2.503C@cmr.no> <5hqooq$gtn@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <33423F01.167EB0E7@net-tel.co.uk> <5hvtj8$e44@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <139@fridaycs.win-uk.net> <861220198.962@dejanews.com> <3356CAEE.1258@onthenet.com.au> <E8uFJ5.117@europipe.com> <5jas30$h5d@uriah.heep.sax.de> <E8zzEB.G59@europipe.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39648 udomunk@ertgseq.du.gtn.com (Udo Munk) wrote: > I have nothing to do with the protocol specification, but I was one > of those who worked for the major telecom companies here to bring up > ISDN. The protocol never ever was developed with TCP/IP in mind, those > telephone people developed it with voice communication and slow motion > picture communication in mind. But then, the protocol specification offers packet-switching features as an option. So since they are already there, why are they only offered for gatewaying to X.25, now that we know that many people would actually be more happy with an unreliable but more cost- effective data exchange? I can only call this stupidity. It's not even that the telco could make more profit if you don't use the channel for actual data exchange, since they still have to guarantee the 64 kbit/s timeslice. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)