From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 19 06:09:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA02178 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 06:09:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.digital.com (mail1.digital.com [204.123.2.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA02173 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 06:09:28 -0800 (PST) From: garyj@frt.dec.com Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com by mail1.digital.com (5.65 EXP 4/12/95 for V3.2/1.0/WV) id AA13982; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 05:55:48 -0800 Received: from localhost by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA26852; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 14:55:30 +0100 Message-Id: <9603191355.AA26852@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: hackers%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com Cc: isdn%muc.ditec.de@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com In-Reply-To: Message from Greg Lehey of Tue, 19 Mar 96 13:52:53 +0700. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: ISDN: "modem" or board? (Was: Microsoft "Get ISDN"?) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 14:55:30 +0100 X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk lehey.pad@sni.de writes: [stuff deleted] > Hellmuth mentions a number of points: > [more stuff deleted] > - 99% of ISDN IP traffic over here is raw IP over HDLC. I disagree. > I know a number of ISPs who use PPP, probably because they don't > know any better. The difference is important, because currently the > FreeBSD implementation can't handle PPP (probably a bug somewhere). > [yet more stuff deleted] my ISP only offers ISDN over PPP. He says, if you use HDLC, then we have to assign you a permanent IP address. We can't do that. That's one reason why I still only have an analog connection to him. I want to use HDLC. The second reason is that I didn't think it would work. In regards to PPP with the current FBSD stuff: did you try this using pppd ? What were the symptoms of the failure ? I've never tried using PPP since I don't have a partner who speaks PPP. Hellmuth Michaelis tells me that the latest isdn4linux supports PPP with channel bundling. I'm planning to take a look at it and maybe use it as a basis for (at least) implementing channel bundling. I still have the problem of no partner :( --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de (play) gj@freebsd.org