From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 12 14:42:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA28664 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 14:42:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA28653 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 14:42:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA29150; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:52:16 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:52:14 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router In-Reply-To: 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 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