From owner-freebsd-isp Fri May 29 11:40:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06568 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 11:40:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nak.myhouse.com (nak.myhouse.com [209.70.45.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06493 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 11:40:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zoonie@myhouse.com) Received: from localhost (zoonie@localhost) by nak.myhouse.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA11148; Fri, 29 May 1998 14:38:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from zoonie@myhouse.com) X-Authentication-Warning: nak.myhouse.com: zoonie owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 14:38:36 -0400 (EDT) From: zoonie Reply-To: zoonie To: David Babler cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISDN Terminal Adaptor recommendation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 29 May 1998, David Babler wrote: > Hmmm, honestly hadn't thought of *originating* the connection to the > customer or making my end reconnect if/when the connection got dropped. > Not sure how whatever he has on his end would respond, though - is this > the normal way of handling dedicated connections? This isn't a > point-to-point leased line, it's just an unpublished number. you should have the customer dial into you instead originating the connection. treat it like a dedicated POTS dialup. my experience with TAs was with my own home system dialing into my hub site and i have gotten rid of that setup. i didn't think that setup was good for customers unless they were technical. i have all of my ISDN customers use ISDN routers and they are all configured to dial into us, we never dial out. the routers are also configured to keep the connection pegged so if it does get dropped for some reason it only takes seconds to dial back in (these are all dedicated ISDN). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message