From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 8 14:54:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA05617 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:54:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [199.184.181.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA05609 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:54:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from right.PCS (right.pcs. [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA19043; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 16:50:34 -0600 (CST) Received: (jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id WAA02939; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 22:53:04 GMT Message-ID: Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 16:53:03 -0600 From: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com ("Jordan K. Hubbard") Cc: hawke@hawkewerks.com (HawkeWerks Multimedia), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router References: <3.0.32.19970108104240.00d0a080@hawkewerks.com> <913.852759096@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.56e Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <913.852759096@time.cdrom.com>; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" on Jan 8, 1997 13:31:36 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > Unfortunately, the Motorola Bitsurfer is a festering piece-o-shit(tm) > and you'd do very well to stay away from it or anything else from > Motorola's communications products division. Cisco has also been > doing quite a bit of testing with their stuff, and the unanimous > decision seems to be "buy a modem or TA from Moto and you will lose." That's not quite fair. I have no opinion on the ISDN stuff, having never used it, but the Motorola Power modems are pretty good. Now, if you want to sling mud at modems, probably nothing is more deserving of the "piece-o-shit" label than the USR's Sportster line. -- Jonathan