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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-was.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ISDN -- final analysis? Date: 20 Jun 1997 23:19:05 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5of359$7lu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5obd62$18v@news.gvsu.edu> <macwhiz-ya023680002006970809270001@news.accinet.net> 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:43260 macwhiz@phoebe.accinet.net (Rob Levandowski) wrote: > There is a third way, which may be more desirable in many cases. Instead > of going with an ISDN terminal adapter approach, you could instead use an > ISDN-to-Ethernet router, such as an Ascend Pipeline [25|50|75]. Unfortunately, this is way more expensive. To give you a picture, the cheap Teles etc. cards BISDN currently handles can often be got for ~ DEM 100 (~ USD 70) these days. That's the only piece of hardware needed, and it can at least handle one workstation's worth of traffic well. This makes it very attractive for us. -- 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. ;-)