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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ISDN terminal adapter cards.
Date: 29 Jun 1996 17:13:34 GMT
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blackm@interaccess.com (Thomas B. Blackman) wrote:

> Is there any work being done on terminal adapter cards for FreeBSD.  I am 
> in the process of getting an isdn at home and would like to go with an 
> internal card.

There's no special support required for a so-called terminal adapter
card, since it behaves to the system like any other RS-232 terminal,
only at a higher speed.  If you can live with 115 kbps (which is less
than two bonded ISDN channels), you get it ``out of the box''.

True internal ISDN adapters are another matter.  There's beta-quality
support available for some cheap (and dumb) cards right now, but at
the moment, only for the German 1TR6 and European EDSS1 switch
protocols.  (The Deutsche Telekom pushes ISDN heavily these days.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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