From owner-freebsd-isdn Sun Mar 8 22:50:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA17166 for freebsd-isdn-outgoing; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 22:50:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from callisto.fortean.com (callisto.fortean.com [209.42.194.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA17130 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 22:50:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walter@fortean.com) Received: from localhost (walter@localhost) by callisto.fortean.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA17427; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 01:47:44 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: callisto.fortean.com: walter owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 01:47:44 -0500 (EST) From: "Bruce M. Walter" To: adrian@virginia.edu cc: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: isdn4bsd is eurocentric, right? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > Yes and no. isdn4bsd is (currently) geared towards a Siemens ISDN chipset > mostly found on European internal boards. Ascend makes the NetWarp 128 which is a passive TA based on the Siemens chipset. Some reports from Ascend indicate that this TA is going to be discontinued. > Another thing is protocol support for this board. I4b currently only > supports the Q.931 signalling protocol, in the US something different is > used. I know of someone who is working on this for the US, but i have no > idea if he still does and in what state it is. That person is probably me ;) At any rate, here's my current status: I've written an adapter driver for the NetWarp under BISDN. It hasn't been tested with a switch as I'm in the US, but seems to communicate with the TA properly. Unfortunately I've not yet converted this driver to work with i4b as my time is being monopolized by a paying project :( I have also started the process of modifying the i4b Q.931 protocol code to meet National ISDN-1 standards (NI-1 is a fairly close derivitive of Q.931) but again my time is short until at least the end of March. I have been trying to get Ascend to release driver source code to me seeing as how the card is supposedly going out of production. No word on this yet. If anyone is interested in speeding things up while I'm bogged down, please feel free to contact me. - Bruce ======================================================================== || Bruce M. Walter || 107 Timber Hollow Court #335 || || Senior Network Consultant || Chapel Hill, NC 27514 || || Fortean Technologies, Inc. || Tel: 919-967-4766 || || Information Technology Consultants || Fax: 919-967-4395 || ======================================================================== || BSD Unix -- It's not just a job, it's a way of life! || ======================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message