From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Sep 15 13:55:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA24763 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:55:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uranus.intrastar.net (root@uranus.intrastar.net [206.136.25.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA24755 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:55:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fixed.intrastar.net (jsuter@fixed.intrastar.net [206.136.25.69]) by uranus.intrastar.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA05300; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:54:03 GMT Message-Id: <199709152054.UAA05300@uranus.intrastar.net> Reply-To: From: "Jacob Suter" To: "John T. Farmer" , Cc: , Subject: Re: Digital Modem choices Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 15:53:46 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1162 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > vendor (Phylon Tech. at http://www.phylon.com/) looking for help in > writing & testing FreeBSD drivers for their cards. Currently they have > W*nNT support. From the looks of it, it (as well as other vendors cards) > use the MVIP bus (as used in voice-mail pc's, Computer based Telephony > apps, etc.) to tie things together. But it looks like it's is/will be > possible to buy/build your own "ascend" replacement soon using FreeBSD... But the issue is, would you want your FreeBSD box to catch on fire like Ascends like to do? I've heard stories of several charred Ascend boxes... And if you can't afford a PM3, you just got no excuse to be an ISP (IMHO). JS