Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 12:05:06 -0700 (PDT) From: David Babler <dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com> To: zoonie <zoonie@myhouse.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISDN Terminal Adaptor recommendation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980529120124.27171t-100000@Rigel.orionsys.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980529140240.11039C-100000@nak.myhouse.com>
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On Fri, 29 May 1998, zoonie wrote: > 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 point-to-point leased line, it's just an unpublished number.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). > Ah, okay - I misunderstood then, I thought you were talking about the ISDN connection on *my* end when you mentioned redialing. The customer already has an ISDN connection to another provider and is running iShare on his Novell network to make the connection; the only new equipment here is on my end, not his. I *was* looking at the USR/3COM ISDN Couriers or IPool TA's originally. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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