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From: "Giselle M. Rushford" <giselle@sapphire.alisa.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ISDN -- final analysis?
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:37:12 -0600
Organization: AppSoft
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Joe Bob wrote:
>
> Matt Behrens wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In my quest to figure out if FreeBSD & ISDN really is possible, I did a
> > little research first (even R-ingTFM, believe it or not) :) and have come
> > up with two conflicting information sources.
> >
> > 1. The FreeBSD handbook states that ISDN is possible simply by hooking it
> > up to the serial port and using PPP, albeit limited to 115Kbps.
> >
> > 2. Joerg (my apologies if I mispelled the name, I am a product of the
> > American public education system after all) ;) said in a post about a
> > month ago that ISDN needed the BISDN package, which was in a state of
> > incompleteness due to a need for complete rewrites right now.
> >
> > Which is correct? I have a customer who wants a machine built, wants to
> > move to ISDN at some point in the future, and would prefer FreeBSD over
> > Linux because of the stability. Thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Matt Behrens
>
> Try an external box that connects via a NIC, like the Ascend Pipeline25
> or 50.
>
> Jason
I'm using an Ascend pipeline 50. The cost was roughly $900.00 U.S.
It was trivial to set it up and considering that I have multiple
PC's on my LAN and the Pipeline 50 is the default router, I consider
the cost relatively trivial as well. The pipeline 50 supports the
telnet protocol for logging in for administration of routing, dialing
functions, etc. The pipeline 50 also supports compression so that
you can exceed the 128Kbps bandwith that it supports.
Attached is a rough drawing of my configuration. Hope this helps
regards
J. Rushford
wjjr@sapphire.alisa.org
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|---------|
| | |---------|
| FreeBSD | | |
| PC |-------| |
|---------| | |
| | |----------|
|---------| | 10BaseT | | |
| | | Wire | 10BaseT | Ascend |
| Solaris |-------| Hub |-----------| Pipeline |------> 128bps ISDN
| PC | | | TCP/IP | 50 |
|---------| | | |----------|
| |
|---------| | | TCP/IP Router
| | | | to ISDN WAN
| Windows |-------| | Default Route
| 95/NT | | |
|---------| |---------|
10BaseT TCP/IP
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