From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 17 09:18:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA24486 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 09:18:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from cabal.io.org (cabal.io.org [198.133.36.103]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA24481 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 09:18:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from taob@localhost) by cabal.io.org (8.7.4/8.7.4) id MAA10415; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 12:16:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 12:16:33 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Microsoft "Get ISDN"? In-Reply-To: <199603161612.LAA03414@etinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, dennis wrote: > > I still find it terribly interesting that people will spend a fortune > on horsepower of questionable necessity (like P6s and 166Mhz cpus to > run a terminal server) but want to use $30. async cards for the most > important bottleneck in their network. People will always be doing this because the level of knowledge required to make intelligent hardware purchases is beyond the average consumer. I agree with you, an ISP who sticks a bunch of high-speed serial ports connected to a bunch of Bitsurfrs to provide ISDN access is just asking for trouble. However, for a workstation or PC at home, a serially-connected ISDN TA will work just fine. Heck, I can even connect a 28.8k modem to the POTS jack on my Bitsurfr as a dialin port and keep my analog voice line free. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"