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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.nntp.acc.ca!newsfeeder.toronto.ican.net!news.rochester.ican.net!macwhiz From: macwhiz@phoebe.accinet.net (Rob Levandowski) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ISDN -- final analysis? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 08:09:27 -0500 Organization: ACC iNet (from ACC Long Distance) Lines: 36 Message-ID: <macwhiz-ya023680002006970809270001@news.accinet.net> References: <5obd62$18v@news.gvsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: powerbook.robl.accinet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Warning-1: Unsolicited commercial e-mail is not welcomed here. X-Spam-Warning-2: It is considered annoying, and as such, under NY law X-Spam-Warning-3: it may constitute a misdemeanor or felony offense. X-Spam-Warning-4: Spammers will be reported. X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.3.6 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43212 In article <5obd62$18v@news.gvsu.edu>, behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) 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! There is a third way, which may be more desirable in many cases. Instead of going with an ISDN terminal adapter approach, you could instead use an ISDN-to-Ethernet router, such as an Ascend Pipeline [25|50|75]. In that case, the FreeBSD box simply needs a supported Ethernet card. I have a Pipeline 75, and (phone company nonsense excepted) it wasn't hard to set up, and it works beautifully. Best of all, it's trivial to hook multiple computers into the same ISDN connection this way. Having seen friends try and get various ISDN TAs to work with various Intel-based operating systems, I must say that I've become a strong proponent of ISDN routers. :) -- Robert Levandowski macwhiz@phoebe.accinet.net