From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 8 15:22:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA07729 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 15:22:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA07720 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 15:22:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA17253; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 16:10:11 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701082310.QAA17253@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router To: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 16:10:11 -0700 (MST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hawke@hawkewerks.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jonathan Lemon" at Jan 8, 97 04:53:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. The Sportster 14.4 FAXmodem (I believe) is theonly one affected, and it's only a problem if you talk to Rockwell chipset modems on the other end. US Robotics has a fix (firmware) for it anyway. The Motorola modem problems don't all have easy fixes. Don't get me wrong; I'm a big fan of Motorola, normally, but the Bitsurfer is known to be a problem in all its incarnations so far; the Sportster, on the other hand, is a problem in a single incarnation, and has a fix available... it's no worse than some Seagate and Connor SCSI drives and tagged command queueing. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.