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From: Borja Marcos <borjamar@sarenet.es>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.isdn,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ISDN TA's supported for BSD Unix?
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 11:48:52 +0100
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David Kulp wrote:
> 
> I'm investigating ISDN and am trying to determine the correct
> TA or router to buy for a PC running BSD Unix.  Do the TA's require
> special drivers for the serial port which are win32 apps, or are
> there drivers for some TAs that run on BSD?  (I couldn't find any
> mention of this in the BSD handbook.)  I'm guessing that the easier
> option is to get an ISDN router and an ethernet card, but this is
> a significantly more expensive option.

	An external TA is like a Hayes modem. It's controlled by
"AT" commands. I'm using a ZyXEL Omni TA128 with excellent
results to access Internet from FreeBSD.


	Borja.


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