From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 9 02:01:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA26110 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 02:01:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au (smmcdialin.ultra.net.au [203.20.237.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA26103 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 02:01:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsd@smmc.qld.edu.au) From: bsd@smmc.qld.edu.au Received: from jap1.ultra.net.au (cesium.elemental.ultra.net.au [203.20.237.75]) by smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA03207; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 05:57:58 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from bsd@smmc.qld.edu.au) Message-Id: <199812091957.FAA03207@smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au> Organization: St MArgaret Mary's College To: brian@worldcontrol.com Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 19:59:10 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Does freeBSD2.7 support ISDN? CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19981208193836.A15729@top.worldcontrol.com> References: <199812091211.WAA02398@smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au>; from bsd@smmc.qld.edu.au on Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 12:10:45PM +1000 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi again Brian... > > I have a question. Apparently an isdn router can switch on demand 64 k > > to 128k. (some or all I don't know) > I depends on what you mean by 'switch on demand'. You probably mean > when the 1st B channel is saturated you'd like the 2nd B channel to > be brought up automatically. I am not aware of a way to do this with > the user land ppp (iijPPP). However, I wouldn't doubt that that > functionality is transparently supported in some of the ISDN TAs. Yep that's what I meant...sort of load balancing. I have today been told that in fact, as you say, some TAs support this transparently...and that's just what I needed to know. ISDN with FreeBSD....what could be easier? > > Someone mentioned these ...synchronous serial port > the 16650 and Hayes ESP are async serial ports. There seems to be > a lot of endless confusion about ISDN and serial ports. Thanks for clearing that up. I do understand. It was just that such synchronous serial ports are in fact available! I was not aware of their existence Again, thanks for your help Keith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message