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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ISDN -- final analysis?
Date: 20 Jun 1997 23:19:05 GMT
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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].

Unfortunately, this is way more expensive.  To give you a picture, the
cheap Teles etc. cards BISDN currently handles can often be got for ~
DEM 100 (~ USD 70) these days.  That's the only piece of hardware
needed, and it can at least handle one workstation's worth of traffic
well.  This makes it very attractive for us.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)