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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!news.eli.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!206.154.70.8!news.webspan.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.he.net!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!not-for-mail From: Paul Newhouse <newhouse~spam@rockhead.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ISDN -- final analysis? Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 17:27:55 -0700 Organization: Rockhead Enterprises Lines: 51 Message-ID: <33B45A8B.2781E494@rockhead.com> References: <5obd62$18v@news.gvsu.edu> <33B34D49.41C67EA6@bob.com> <33B44098.28E@sapphire.alisa.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: wanker.nas.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43658 Giselle M. Rushford wrote: > 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! > > Try an external box that connects via a NIC, like the Ascend Pipeline25 > > or 50. > > 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. > You could also look into a P75 (slightly more expensive) it has two analog jacks (although using both is difficult if you have a data connection). We used to have 4 analog lines in the house before ISDN now, 1-ANALOG and 1-ISDN. We have an Analog phone hooked to the back of the P75 (w/a 50' extention to another spot in the house). Every now and then we get calls on it, the P75 drops a B-channel, then reconencts when the analog line is completed. The P75 is a P50 w/2 Analog jacks. Something to think about, Paul -- ISDN is almost like actually being connected to the net.