Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:52:14 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970113095009.213K-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970108142327.3454A-100000@harlie>
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On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > > > Last time the bitsurfr came up on this last it was to describe all the > > > problems with it. Has motorola fixed them? > > > thanks > > > ron > > What's the best low-cost way to connect two FreeBSD boxes, then? I'm > considering asking my supervisor for a perk rather than a pay raise, in > the form of upgrading my 28.8 dedicated link to the office to an ISDN > line, with a FreeBSD box on both ends. It'd cost me $500/month to get > that from an ISP, but they can afford the bandwidth, so it would be purely > a matter of line cost ($40 a month on each end plus hardware). Not that I > really need more bandwidth at home, but who doesn't want it? > > Naturally, if the cost is $700+ on each end for ISDN routers, it isn't > going to happen. Of course, at 115K async, it would only be a 50% > improvement over 64K, so I'd like to find a way to use all the bandwidth > as well, which the Bitsurfer pro will only do with a sync interface. Have you looked at multiple modems? I have a link between two FreeBSD boxes using 3 * 33.6k modems and mpd. Compressed files transfer at 9kbytes/sec (faster than 64kbps ISDN). Danny
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