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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Bragging rights..
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 12:28:58 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <17846.814081219@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 18, 95 10:40:19 pm
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> A TA is hooked to a normal FreeBSD box with a standard 16550 serial
> port on both ends.  I'm using the ADTRAN TAs - not the dirt-cheapest
> or the highest tech, but they're the only ones that did *everything* I
> wanted and did it *now*.  Talk to Motorola and it's "yeah, you can
> have async bonding in a PROM upgrade RSN - we promise!"

We've been running the Motorola async bonding since July or August.  Fire
your rep.

> and a pair of FreeBSD boxes - no other custom hardware of any sort was
> required.  I can see a lot of 386 boxes coming back to service as
> dedicated ISDN routers in the next few years.. :-)

I've been using 386's for a long time as a "dedicated application" platform...
they make great routers, terminal servers, etc. etc.  Maybe this works better
for me because I believe in functional separation, and generally don't have
a box doing lots of diverse chores.

It definitely makes individual system upgrades much easier to contemplate.
However it tends to add to the number of systems that must be upgraded :-/

> Now if I can just get my hands on a pair of ISDN cards to get that
> full pipe.. [he gazes off into the distance..]

This is a good thing to be looking towards.

... JG