From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 19 01:44:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA25842 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 01:44:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail12.digital.com (mail12.digital.com [192.208.46.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA25832 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 01:44:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com (cssmuc.frt.dec.com [16.186.96.161]) by mail12.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) with SMTP id EAA14090 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 04:39:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mofo.frt.dec.com by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA26358; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 10:39:37 +0200 Received: from mofo.frt.dec.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mofo.frt.dec.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA03250 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 10:37:09 GMT Message-Id: <199709191037.KAA03250@mofo.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message from Luigi Rizzo of Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:32:57 +0200. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: ISDN Modems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 10:37:09 +0000 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Luigi Rizzo writes: > Now if ISDN cards were sold in volumes and priced reasonably (i.e. > as much as an NE2000, since they are actually simpler!) and accessed > through a dedicated device driver, then things would certainly be > different. > well, ISDN cards aren't as cheap as the NE2000 clones, I have to admit that. But then again, the volume is a lot smaller. I can get a Teles clone here in Germany for about 140 DM, which is ~$75. And, with bisdn, the cards _are_ accessed using a dedicated driver. I can get (depending on the quality of the connection) the maximum throughput of ~8kB/sec (well, actually ~7.5kB/s with overhead). --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) garyj@muc.de (play) gj@freebsd.org