From owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 6 07:42:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0AD16A4CE for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 07:42:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from bhenrich.dov.nq.net (bhenrich.dov.nq.net [210.11.152.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3624B43D53 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 07:42:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bhenrich@deschutes.no-ip.com) Received: from IBM74E4B9692C8 (unknown [192.168.1.253]) by bhenrich.dov.nq.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 739B3110EDC4 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 01:42:33 +1000 (EST) From: "Brett Henrich" To: Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 01:42:33 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Thread-Index: AcPsx9Zj7zNDOtkKTZeKZIqkkuSd6w== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-Id: <20040206154233.739B3110EDC4@bhenrich.dov.nq.net> Subject: Bandwidth on (manual) demand with i4b X-BeenThere: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Using ISDN with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:42:38 -0000 Hello, I'm a Linux user looking at migrating my ISDN router over to BSD after finally having enough with the problems with ISDN4Linux (hard lockups, MPPP issues, the fact it doesn't work with Linux 2.6 among others) and there is one question I can't seem to find an answer to: If I have a 128Kbps Synchronous PPP ISDN connection, is it possible to manually dial and hangup the "slave" channel to switch between a 64 and a 128Kbps link. The reason being is that during the day (this is a home ISDN connection) I need the second channel open to receive phone calls. At night, I can bring up both channels and run the connection at 128Kbps. I have a cron job at the moment that dials the slave channel at 10pm and brings it down at 7am. Under Linux (ISDN4Linux) this is performed by issuing the command "isdnctrl dial ippp1" (dial second channel) and "isdnctrl hangup ippp1" respectively. This function is critical if I'm going to switch over to BSD for Linux. I'm in Australia too. ISDN (DoV) is untimed but there is a per-call charge (18 cents) so I want basically to run 64K all the time, bursting to 128K at night. Thanks for your time, and yes, I'm a newbie. Brett.