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From: scott@computeralt.com (Scott I. Remick) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ISDN -- final analysis? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 22:57:53 GMT Organization: Computer Alternatives, Inc. Reply-To: scott@computeralt.com Message-ID: <33ac0a1a.8483508@news.together.net> References: <5obd62$18v@news.gvsu.edu> <macwhiz-ya023680002006970809270001@news.accinet.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.0/32.390 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: scott.computeralt.com Lines: 33 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.154.70.8!news.webspan.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!204.97.120.24!news.together.net!scott.computeralt.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43244 On Fri, 20 Jun 1997 08:09:27 -0500, macwhiz@phoebe.accinet.net (Rob Levandowski) wrote: >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. :) This is precisely how we do it here, and it has worked perfectly from day one. Hardly anything at all to set up on either the FreeBSD box or the router. In a few minutes it was up and running, with everyone on the network having access. A great solution for someone just getting into FreeBSD/unix and not really prepared to deal with really weird stuff quite yet (as in, me) :) A side benefit is that other systems on the network aren't dependant on the FreeBSD system being up in order for them to access the internet. ----------------------- Scott I. Remick mailto:scott@computeralt.com Network Systems Administrator (802)388-7545 FAX:(802)388-3697 Computer Alternatives, Inc. http://www.computeralt.com God placed me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind, I'm never going to die.