From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 18 08:21:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA03439 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 08:21:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA03434 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 08:21:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id KAA25833; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:19:28 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199603181619.KAA25833@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Microsoft "Get ISDN"? To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:19:27 -0600 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Mar 17, 96 12:16:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, dennis wrote: > > > > I still find it terribly interesting that people will spend a fortune > > on horsepower of questionable necessity (like P6s and 166Mhz cpus to > > run a terminal server) but want to use $30. async cards for the most > > important bottleneck in their network. > > People will always be doing this because the level of knowledge > required to make intelligent hardware purchases is beyond the average > consumer. I agree with you, an ISP who sticks a bunch of high-speed > serial ports connected to a bunch of Bitsurfrs to provide ISDN access > is just asking for trouble. Why is that? People keep telling me how the Portmasters can handle 115200 on all ports simultaneously... what's the difference between this and hooking up a bunch of 28.8's? You're just doing the same thing, a little faster.... get some decent serial hardware on a PC (one of the nifty coprocessed intelligent cards) and it even becomes quite feasible under FreeBSD. > However, for a workstation or PC at home, > a serially-connected ISDN TA will work just fine. Heck, I can even > connect a 28.8k modem to the POTS jack on my Bitsurfr as a dialin port > and keep my analog voice line free. Yes, that is quite attractive :-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968