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From: jcaron@pressimage.net (Jacques Caron)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 64KB Digital Modems and FreeBSD 2.0
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 22:13:41 +0200
Organization: Pressimage, France
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In article <DBv9uu.L2w@news.tcd.ie>, Just.Farrell@cs.tcd.ie (Justin
Farrell) wrote:
>Has anybody had any experience with hooking up a FreeBSD box to an ISP via a
>64KB leased line? - if so what brand of 'digital modem' (for want of a better
>word) did you use. Reliability, price and ease of configuration would all be
>of interest to me. ISDN is not of interest as I will be getting a dedicated
>leased line from the telephone company.
>
>Any experiences with the above would be of interest (the make/model of PC you
>used would also be of interest).
You should make sure with Telecom Eirann that they don't install the modem
themselves... That's often the case in Europe (or at least in France,
anyway).
And if you look for one, I guess our US counterparts call that CSU/DSUs,
but they usually have 56K and not 64K, so I'm not sure they would be
compatible.
Anyway, you'll probably need a router, as these modems are SYNC, and I'm
not quite sure there's appropriate support in FreeBSD for that (I guess
you'd need a special sync serial card for that, too).
Jacques.
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