From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 1 16:07:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA17309 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 16:07:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA17296 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 16:07:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA06968; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 17:05:42 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199702020005.RAA06968@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: bisdn To: grog@lemis.de Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 17:05:42 -0700 (MST) Cc: plm@xs4all.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199702011556.QAA19237@freebie.lemis.de> from "grog@lemis.de" at Feb 1, 97 04:56:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > At least I don't know of any ISP's that offer other ways for > > TCP/IP connection. > > There aren't too many in the USA. That doesn't mean that there > shouldn't be. I believe most ISDN routers can be set up to run > without PPP. Certainly the ISPs over here, nearly all of who offer > transparent HDLC, use the same routers as are used in the USA. The default hardware in the US doesn't do the HDLC for you. Think about what hardware the phone company provides for an ISDN user over there, but doesn't provide for an ISDN user over here... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.