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From: dr@ripco.com (David Richards)
Subject: Re: Motorola Bitsurfer Pro + FreeBSD
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In article <4ab9fe$d14@murphy.servtech.com>,
Ivan Pulleyn <ivan@carcass.roc.servtech.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>  Has anyone ever used the Motorola Bitsurfer Pro with MPPP (that's
>2 B channels at the same time ) for ISDN access to a service provider?  I am
>considering this, but want to know how happy it is with FreeBSD.

With a normal async serial card (and perhaps sync->async PPP turned on in
the BSPro) you'll only be able to use 115.2Kbps of the 128KBps available
from ISDN.

The channel aggregation is not a function of PPP but is implemented in the 
ISDN equipment at each end- there's still many competing ways of doing
it so you may wish to check compatibility with wherever you'll be calling
into.

To FreeBSD it'll just look like a fast serial port, and sets up like any
other PPP connection. 
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