From owner-freebsd-isdn Fri Feb 11 0:16:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from onizuka.vmunix.org (onizuka.vmunix.org [194.221.152.19]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA15C46B3 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 00:16:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (1236 bytes) by onizuka.vmunix.org via sendmail with stdio (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:16:08 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:16:08 +0100 (CET) From: torstenb@vmunix.org (Torsten Blum) To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Subject: Re: free slow channel References: <200002101633.QAA39597@jhs.muc.de> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.3 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In freebsd-isdn you write: >A friend told me in [last weekend's (5&6 Feb 2000)?] Suddeutsche Zeitung >`Computer & Co' supplement, it reported that, as of 9/2000 Deutsche Telekom >would offer free continuous ISDN connection at low bandwidth. >I presume this is buried inside the 16K D channel, >I hope it's not tied into their own ISP service, but is generic, I don't know what DTAG wans to offer technically, but ATMK the only way to transfer data in the D-channel which is supported by ITU standards is X.25 via D-Channel as defined in X.31. This has been available from DTAG for a long time. I wonder if they really want to do it via X.25 or if there's either any standard I missed or if DTAG wants to define a new protocol on their own ... -tb -- OSI ist nicht deswegen tot, weil es nicht vernünftig war, sondern weil sein Mitbewerb praxisnäher ist. Man könnte sagen, das ist der Sieg des ingenieur- mäßigen Designs über das akademische Design. -- Helge Oldach über den OSI Protokollstack in To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message