From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 01:16:31 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA06116 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 May 1995 01:16:31 -0700 Received: from inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com (inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com [16.1.0.33]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA06107 for ; Tue, 9 May 1995 01:16:15 -0700 Received: from tartufo.pcs.dec.com by inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com (5.65/24Feb95) id AA21063; Tue, 9 May 95 01:09:26 -0700 Received: by tartufo.pcs.dec.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.16.1 #16.39) id ; Tue, 9 May 95 10:09 MSZ Message-Id: Date: Tue, 9 May 95 10:09 MSZ From: me@tartufo.pcs.dec.com (Michael Elbel) To: nit@llc.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Various questions Newsgroups: pcs.freebsd.questions References: Reply-To: me@FreeBSD.org Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In pcs.freebsd.questions you write: >- Lastly, and I know this is plug time, any comments from users using >FreeBSD as a base for a firewall? There seem to be some, after all there's firewall code in the kernel :-) We're about to set up a quite similar construct here to connect our corporation to the internet. I've commited myself to use FreeBSD and can't see any reason why it wouldn't work. I see several possibilities to connect to ISDN though: - Active ISDN card with special driver (there's support for some Dr. Neuhaus cards in the kernel, but they only support the German/European D channel protocols) - ISDN card that looks like a internal modem to the user - configure it like any old analog modem - External ISDN "terminal adapter", same thing. I don't know what interrupt load the modem-like-looking things put on your system, after all you'll have to set the serial line to 115200bps. Joe Greco recommends to use a low end machine (e.g. 386DX/40) as dedicated ISDN router. He is obviously using a Motorola UTA220 with good results. Michael -- Michael Elbel, PCS GmbH, Muenchen, Germany - me@FreeBSD.org Fermentation fault (coors dumped)