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Subject: Re: ISDN: "modem" or board? (Was: Microsoft "Get ISDN"?) 
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 23:48:29 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> boy, this is screwed up. Have you considered getting a pair of
> Lion DataPumps ? See Julian Stacey's home page on freefall. These
> look just like internal modems, support PPP on-board and channel
> bonding too. AFAIK, Barry has an office in the US now.

I might just do this..  It's getting a little stupid at this point.

> Of course, it would be really nice if you waited Teles out so you
> could test the ISDN stuff in the US :)

:-)  I'm willing if they are!

> It's not a matter of the Teles cards not supporting it. They can handle
> 2 B-channels simultaneously w/o any problem. It's hacking it into
> the kernel. What do we use as the protocol ? MPP ? BACP (unbelievably
> ugly !) ? Home-made ?

Everyone from Motorola to ADTRAN seems to go the "home made" route, so..

> nothing easier ! Just enter the incoming/outgoing phone numbers into
> /etc/isdn and say "telnet the-other-guy" and, hey presto !, the

Ah.  Well then.

					Jordan