Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 19:26:33 -0600 (CST) From: Avalon Books <avalon@advicom.net> To: William McVey <wam@sa.fedex.com> Cc: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I4B support for US ISDN? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901231912200.20739-100000@vespucci.advicom.net> In-Reply-To: <199901230106.TAA19361@s07.sa.fedex.com>
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On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, William McVey wrote: > * The two references which seemed to have the most content were Bellcore's > site at http://www.bellcore.com/ISDN/ and the North American ISDN Users' > Forum at http://www.niuf.nist.gov/misc/niuf.html Lucky for us in the U.S., we can use the existing PPP code for our TA's, or switch to routers (my personal favorite), making I4B needlessly redundant. And as expected, your inquiry has drawn a less-than- enthusiastic response from our european counter-parts. I have no idea why they give Americans such a frosty reception when we express an interest in ISDN... Lately, I've been testing an Alpha Telecom UTA120 terminal adapter connected to a Boca Research IO650 card (16C650 UARTS), using the existing serial port and PPP code without modification. It runs great and through-put is exactly as expected. My new router (the Mucho 3) comes in next month (combo ISDN router and Ethernet Hub)... After reviewing the I4B package myself (with the help of my engineering contacts), I have yet to see where it would provide substantially better support for our (U.S.) ISDN equipment over the existing packages within the "stock" FreeBSD distributions--though I4B shows the marks of both excellent programming and proper research (hats off the the authors). Of course, we don't normally have to deal with the issue of fully self-supporting drivers. Virtually all the ISDN equipment available in the U.S. is connected via seri~al (aka Terminal Adapter) or Ethernet (aka Router). I4B seems to be a good choice if you have something that doesn't fall into either category. -- R. Pelletier Sys Admin, House Galiagante We are a Micro$oft-free site. P.S. Take a look: http://advicom.net/~avalon/house.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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