From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 19 00:24:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA20949 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 00:24:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA20924 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 00:24:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA20235 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 09:24:41 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA12604; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 09:11:48 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970919091148.YQ55583@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 09:11:48 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISDN Modems References: <199709181232.OAA09840@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <19970918215602.50570@grendel.IAEhv.nl> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19970918215602.50570@grendel.IAEhv.nl>; from Peter Korsten on Sep 18, 1997 21:56:02 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Peter Korsten wrote: > Personally, I think your own ISDN router is a bit overkill at home. > The elegant thing about an ISDN card is that it's a digital interface, > just like Ethernet, that plugs right into your computer. No fuss > with wiring, just a simple RJ-45 plug and your connected to the > rest of the world. You've got a few more advantages. The ISDN card isn't bound to only access the bearer service `64k data', you can access the voice services as well, thus making it an intelligent answer machine. Just detect the phone number of the incoming call, then decide whether to auto-answer the call or not, and how to do it. ,,Hello, my dear friend xxx. Thanks for leaving your phone number so i could recognize you. Sorry to say, i'm not at home, but you can reach me at yyyy's number.'' :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)