From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 30 19:30:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA06038 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 19:30:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA06000 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 19:30:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.0/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id CAA22146; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 02:30:29 GMT Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 11:30:29 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Terry Lambert cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: isdn code In-Reply-To: <199610010029.RAA00510@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > >> Unless sufficient many people come out in defense of the current isdn > > >> code in the FreeBSD tree, it will be removed because of lack of support > > >> from developers. > > > > > >What is "unsupported" about it such that it makes you want to remove > > >the code? > > > > Well, nobody seems to use it or support it. > > I thought many Germans were using it, since their country has a real > communications infrastructure, unlike ours. They have a unified ISDN policy like Japan does. Communications monopolies makes this easier I suppose. Surprisingly, Germany's Internet infrastructure seems pretty weak. International ISP's are more likely to access Europe via the UK or Sweden. Anyway, that's a different story. The Teles driver only supports HDLC and does not support PPP, though I think they are working on PPP support. I think most FreeBSD Teles Users in Germany prefer HDLC because it has less overhead than PPP, so most of the effort goes there. This doesn't help for those who need to connect to other vendors devices that are most likely use PPP. Regards, Mike Hancock