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From: Soren Ragsdale <soren@primenet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ISDN -- final analysis?
Date: 19 Jun 1997 14:20:01 -0700
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Matt Behrens <behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu> wrote:
: Hi all,
: In my quest to figure out if FreeBSD & ISDN really is possible, I did a
: little research first (even R-ingTFM, believe it or not) :) and have come
: up with two conflicting information sources.
: 1. The FreeBSD handbook states that ISDN is possible simply by hooking it
: up to the serial port and using PPP, albeit limited to 115Kbps.
: 2. Joerg (my apologies if I mispelled the name, I am a product of the
: American public education system after all) ;) said in a post about a
: month ago that ISDN needed the BISDN package, which was in a state of
: incompleteness due to a need for complete rewrites right now.
: Which is correct? I have a customer who wants a machine built, wants to
: move to ISDN at some point in the future, and would prefer FreeBSD over
: Linux because of the stability. Thanks!
I am this very moment using a 3Com Impact ISDN TA in FreeBSD 2.2.2. It
was a bit of trouble to set up (last hurdle: hooked.net's prompt says
"Login:" and not "login:". Aargh!) but it's working somewheat. I'm still
having trouble getting it to go duplex (this is a modem register setting
apparently, not a FreeBSD problem) and there's a problem with it
disconnecting after the appropriate time (perhaps sendmail or named is
sending out a packet or two every 2 minutes or something?) but everything
is working OK.
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