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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!shawnb From: shawnb@ecst.csuchico.edu (Shawn Brown) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: isdn Date: 28 Nov 1994 02:29:49 GMT Organization: California State University, Chico Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3bbfat$m1o@charnel.ecst.CSUChico.EDU> References: <3bamsd$dp5@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hairball.ecst.csuchico.edu In article <3bamsd$dp5@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, David C Ferovick <ferovick@runner> wrote: >What kind of choices would I have if I would like to connect my PC to the >net via an ISDN link? I would like to run NetBSD, FreeBSD, or BSDI's >BSD/OS on a pentium to support this, but I don't know what is supported. Depends on how you want to do it. There are several ISDN cards on the market, and for these, you'd need driver support. I don't know what is supported under any of the OS' you mention. The other route (albeit more expensive) is nearly transparent to the OS. You need a supported ethernet card, and an ISDN to LAN bridge. The ISDN bridges that are available are fairly expensive (usually around $1000.) Combinet recently released an ISDN bridge that utilizes compression to attain speeds of 500kbps. That is 1/3 of the speed of a T1 at ISDN BRI prices! Shawn