From owner-freebsd-isp Mon May 5 18:08:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA03428 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 5 May 1997 18:08:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.MCESTATE.COM (mail.MCESTATE.COM [207.211.200.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA03422 for ; Mon, 5 May 1997 18:08:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by mail.MCESTATE.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA04332; Mon, 5 May 1997 18:07:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 18:07:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: Greg Stringfellow cc: Adam David , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISP Terminal Server Remote Site Requirements In-Reply-To: <199705022128.QAA22402@smokey.prismnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 2 May 1997, Greg Stringfellow wrote: > Adam David said: > > X2 will work on any digital line, ISDN lines are digital lines that also > > support ISDN. Perhaps all digital lines support ISDN with your telco. > > Any modem server can be used for X2 since the modems don't care whether > > the incoming connection is analog or digital (i.e. the modems look like > > "fast modems"), but to get the most out of it you will need the new Z series > > serial ports (to get compression bandwidth). Unfortunately there is no > > FreeBSD driver available for them yet. Therefore, some legwork or brainwork > > will be necessary to get Z-ports to work. On the other hand, how far away > > are we from using Linux drivers with FreeBSD? That would be awesome! :) > > Probably the easiest way I have seen to do X2 is to purchase a USR Total > Control 8/I (I think that's the model #). It allows 8 BRIs in and has 8 DB25 > outputs. They might have a PRI version, or at least one in the works. I > don't use USR TC gear, so I really don't keep up with it. The only problem in BRIs is that you need 8 BRI's going in while with a PRI, it's just one PRI for 24 modems. > > Another question though. Can X2 modems accept 56k connections from Rockwell > > and Motorola (assuming them to be the 3rd player) modems? > > No. No standard has really been set yet on a 56k analog protocol so it's > either USR or everyone else. Besides the fact that FCC regulations only allow up to 53kBps even on X2. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]