From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 1 10:57:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA05546 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 10:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA05536 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 10:57:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA01968; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 10:56:25 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199610011756.KAA01968@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: isdn code To: michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 10:56:25 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, phk@critter.tfs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Michael Hancock" at Oct 1, 96 11:30:29 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The Teles driver only supports HDLC and does not support PPP, though I > think they are working on PPP support. I think most FreeBSD Teles Users > in Germany prefer HDLC because it has less overhead than PPP, so most of > the effort goes there. This doesn't help for those who need to connect to > other vendors devices that are most likely use PPP. Sounds like a situation where you'd want to say "American, if you want support, write it", not "German, we are going to drop your driver unless you support American hardware and protocols". Sound like the code isn't being Americanized; that's far different than it not being maintained. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.