From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 1 16:28:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7489E10656A3; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 16:28:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E3F8FC18; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 16:28:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (p549A5790.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.87.144]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o81G9sR4030603; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 16:09:55 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o81G9nxa072715; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 18:09:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o81G9XEQ011268; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 18:09:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201009011609.o81G9XEQ011268@fire.js.berklix.net> To: security-officer@freebsd.org From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:31:40 PDT." <4C7E71DC.1040808@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:09:33 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: freebsd security , Deb Goodkin , FreeBSD Stable , gljennjohn@googlemail.com Subject: Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:28:22 -0000 > On November 30th, FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 8.0 will have reached their FreeBSD -7 & -8 do not support ISDN I'm told. So 6.4 is the last working FreeBSD ISDN. DSL is faster than ISDN, but Losing ISDN would be unfortunate: - Not all can get DSL speed, if they live far from phone exchange. - ISDN allows one more security (caller ID comes from phone company), additional to whatever crypto keys/passwords. - ISDN on the PC allows one to have Name (via lookup of number) of phone caller & which incoming destination number received call, show up on an X Term - I've had that with FreeBSD over 10+ years now :-) Could easily be hooked to a database springing up a a custome xterm according to calling customer ID, called number & time of day (all being used to select which service info ) But if we drop ISDN ...! Could FreeBSD reinsert ISDN back into current/8/7 support ? Perhaps via: - a student SOC project ? - FreeBSD foundation paying a FreeBSD consultant (I know one who has the expertise already, has the time, & could use some money (I don't mean me, & he didn't aske me to post this, it'll come as a suprise to him :-) - Or whatever other method to get ISDN back in kernel ? Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text, Not HTML, quoted-printable & base 64 dumped with spam. Avoid top posting, It cripples itemised cumulative responses.