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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!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-was.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!zeus.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de!grapool30.rz.uni-frankfurt.de!not-for-mail From: Marko Schuetz <marko@kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ISDN -- final analysis? Date: 23 Jun 1997 12:43:48 +0200 Organization: J.W.Goethe-Universit"at, Frankfurt, Informatik Lines: 18 Message-ID: <86wwnloazf.fsf@kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5obd62$18v@news.gvsu.edu> <macwhiz-ya023680002006970809270001@news.accinet.net> <5of359$7lu@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.66) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43357 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > > 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. How much would the Ascend cost? Marko