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From: news@GTS.NET (Operator)
Subject: Re: ISDN for NetBSD
Message-ID: <DH2tFH.GJx@GTS.NET>
Organization: G.T.S., Toronto, Ontario
References: <46gifk$d2n@cousteau.norcen.com> <46j86v$7u7@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 22:06:52 GMT
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In article <46j86v$7u7@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>,
Mark Willey <willey@hillres142.cc.purdue.edu> wrote:
|John Hoogerdijk (jhoogerd@norcen.com) wrote:
|: Hi,
|
|: Are there any ISDN cards supported by NetBSD? What's the easiest/best way of
|: doing ISDN with NetBSD?
|
|The easiest AND best way to do it is to use your ethernet card to talk to
|the ISDN device.  Look into the "Ascend Pipeline" (I think) brand.


	Let me guess - you're filthy rich, yes?


	There is reportedly a Motorola card for
	PClones that is still not cheap, but an
	order of magnitude less expensive than
	a Pipeline - it just needs a device driver 8^)
	Also NetBSD doesn't have that silly little
	static route table that is too small for
	everything except for sites that can't afford
	to buy one


	I am told that some modems such as Zyxel have
	serial port i/o that effectively makes an
	ISDN AT-command type device, but I don't
	know the gotcha's as I haven't tried it.


	...and for the geek that has everything, get
	an SGI box with the ISDN on the motherboard,
	and own a router with incredible graphics ;^)

	
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Bruce Becker	News Administration	Toronto, Ont.
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