From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jan 12 17:30:11 1997 Return-Path: <owner-hardware> Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA09234 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 17:30:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from gamma.pair.com (gamma.pair.com [207.86.128.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA09229; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 17:30:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from [207.104.16.18] (ppp-207-104-16-18.snrf01.pacbell.net [207.104.16.18]) by gamma.pair.com (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA17891; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 20:30:45 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199701130130.UAA17891@gamma.pair.com> X-Envelope-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reliable modems? Date: Sun, 12 Jan 97 17:29:28 -0800 x-mailer: Claris Emailer 1.1 From: Eric Harley <erich@powerwareintl.com> To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Does anyone out there have or know of a list of reliable modems? >By reliable, I mean modems which have the least compatibility problems, >especially when negotiating with other vendors' modems. My understanding >(which is probably wrong, so feel free to correct me, thanks) is that >even tough a vendor claims to support standard (e.g V42bis), it may not >always work with another vendor's 'same' standard (i.e. V42bis again). >Probably one (or both) of them is only supporting a subset of the standard. > The Zylex modems have always worked fine for me and are the easiest to update the ROM if necassary. Plus, they are supported by Innosoft's PMDF mail2fax gateway. Eric Eric Harley, VP Information Systems & CIO Powerware International http://www.powerwareintl.com/ Email: eric.harley@powerwareintl.com Web: http://www.powerwareintl.com/staff/erich/ PGP: http://www.powerwareintl.com/staff/erich/pgp.txt