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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.oru.edu!news.IAEhv.nl!iaehv.IAEhv.nl!not-for-mail From: peterk@IAEhv.nl (Peter Korsten) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.isdn,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ISDN TA's supported for BSD Unix? Followup-To: comp.dcom.isdn,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 12 Feb 1997 09:39:26 GMT Organization: Internet Access Eindhoven, the Netherlands Lines: 37 Message-ID: <5ds34e$4s3@news.IAEhv.nl> References: <dkulp-ya023380000102971144510001@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <87k9or4lth.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: iaehv.iaehv.nl X-Server-Date: 12 Feb 1997 09:39:26 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.dcom.isdn:48618 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35529 Book of News, verse <87k9or4lth.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl>: And Peter Mutsaers spake: | >> On Sat, 01 Feb 1997 11:44:51 -0800, dkulp@cse.ucsc.edu (David Kulp) said: | | DK> Anyone out there with experience here? I would guess that there | DK> are a few of you BSD folks running network services on ISDN. | | I had an internal ISDN TA first (a Teles, very popular in Germany and | the Netherlands). These require special drivers of course, but are | very cheap. For FreeBSD the drivers aren't quite there yet (almost, | but I've been hearing that for a long time). | | If you really want a cheap internal TA you'll have to run Linux for | the moment. Uh, well, I run FreeBSD 2.2 (up until CTM #135) with a Teles.S0/16.3 at home and it runs just fine (running SyncPPP/HDLC). The problem is, that the PPP-patches are not widely spread. You can get them at 'http://www.arg1.demon.co.uk/'. It took me some time to figure everything out, though, because the BISDN-0.97 package doesn't come in a One Size Fits All package (there's some kernel rebuilding involved, for instance). Also, I've got problems getting PAP to work the way I want it. I should be able to put my usercode, prepended with a 'P' in my /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file, but pppd (actually, the slightly patched isdnpppd, but the patches don't apply to the authentification code) really wants my own machine name in that file. At the moment, I'm using the '+ua' option to log in. I did get a few hints about how to solve it, but I haven't got to it yet. The only thing now to do is to configure news/rnews/inn and SL/IP to my Amiga, and then I have my own FreeBSD ISDN router. - Peter -- Peter Korsten peterk@IAEhv.nl http://www.IAEhv.nl/iae/people/peterk/ C/C++/Java/Perl-hacker