From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 19 08:44:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA14287 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 08:44:55 -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 IAA14272 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 08:44:50 -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 AA19180; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 07:54:07 -0800 Received: from localhost by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA07759; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:53:52 +0100 Message-Id: <9603191553.AA07759@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 "Jordan K. Hubbard" of Tue, 19 Mar 96 06:10:18 PST. 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 16:53:52 +0100 X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk jkh@time.cdrom.com writes: [stuff deleted] > > I've had mine on order from Teles for 5 months now. Still no > availability in the U.S. > boy, this is screwed up. Have you considered getting a pair of Lion DataPumps ? See Julian Stacey's home page on freefall. These look just like internal modems, support PPP on-board and channel bonding too. AFAIK, Barry has an office in the US now. Of course, it would be really nice if you waited Teles out so you could test the ISDN stuff in the US :) > The ADTRAN TAs are also nice in that they do channel bonding > transparently. You just configure the modem for bonding mode 1 and it > automagically makes two outgoing calls and bonds the B channels > together for a single "fat pipe". I've talked with Helmuth a little > about this and it doesn't look like it's anywhere near as easy to do > with the TELES cards, though I may have misunderstood him. > It's not a matter of the Teles cards not supporting it. They can handle 2 B-channels simultaneously w/o any problem. It's hacking it into the kernel. What do we use as the protocol ? MPP ? BACP (unbelievably ugly !) ? Home-made ? > Oh yeah, the TAs also support standard Hayes dialing. I'm not looking > forward to figuring out how to use the dialer interface for the boards. > nothing easier ! Just enter the incoming/outgoing phone numbers into /etc/isdn and say "telnet the-other-guy" and, hey presto !, the connection gets made for you. Well, you need a route and have to configure the ii? interfaces, but it's no more difficult than setting up SL/IP or PPP. This is IP on top of HDLC, totally transparent. Most of the dirty work gets done in /etc/rc.isdn. --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de (play) gj@freebsd.org