From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 5 15:55:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA10718 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 15:55:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.112.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA10713 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 15:55:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.6/8.8.5) id AAA05913; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 00:55:42 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199708052255.AAA05913@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: ISDN drivers/cards In-Reply-To: from Stephen Roome at "Aug 5, 97 03:00:59 pm" To: steve@visint.co.uk (Stephen Roome) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 00:55:41 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: perhaps@yes.no, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I know this discussion is old now, but I didn't get to my mailbox > in time, and I've had too much grief trying to get bisdn working reliably > to let it pass... > > I tried using bisdn, both with -current and 2.2.2, without much luck, I'm Well, I had more luck. For nearly a year now I'm using a bisdn connection to the rest of the world (both sides bisdn one FreeBSD-the other NetBSD, in the meantime both FreeBSD) I had no trouble whatsoever with the raw-IP and the answer machine from bisdn-097. I had some trouble with ppp over bisdn--but they are solved by now to and I am using two ppp-connections to ascend routers--both with dynamic assigned addresses. I did have two or three crashes--even kernel panics. They were caused by misconfiguration and by routed not being able to cope with newly assigned IP addresses. Another cause of grief was using bisdn-interfaces w/o an entry in the bisdn.cfg file. This led to SIGSEG for bisdnd. But w/o running routed and with some care while editing bisdnd.cfg it works like a charm. You're right, the installation of bisdnd including the kernel patches is not the most elegant thing under the sun--and this is getting worse with every committ to the kernel sources, that change the interface. Wolfgang