From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 8 14:31:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA04352 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:31:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA04343 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:31:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from harlie (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA14632; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:30:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:30:53 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" X-Sender: ejs@harlie To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: "Ron G. Minnich" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router In-Reply-To: <1025.852760139@time.cdrom.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 Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > yes, but for each problem they fixed, they added 2 more. :-) > > Seriously, avoid this unit like a case of ebola virus. > > > Last time the bitsurfr came up on this last it was to describe all the > > problems with it. Has motorola fixed them? > > thanks > > ron What's the best low-cost way to connect two FreeBSD boxes, then? I'm considering asking my supervisor for a perk rather than a pay raise, in the form of upgrading my 28.8 dedicated link to the office to an ISDN line, with a FreeBSD box on both ends. It'd cost me $500/month to get that from an ISP, but they can afford the bandwidth, so it would be purely a matter of line cost ($40 a month on each end plus hardware). Not that I really need more bandwidth at home, but who doesn't want it? Naturally, if the cost is $700+ on each end for ISDN routers, it isn't going to happen. Of course, at 115K async, it would only be a 50% improvement over 64K, so I'd like to find a way to use all the bandwidth as well, which the Bitsurfer pro will only do with a sync interface.