Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 17:43:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Dennis <jimd@mistery.mcafee.com> To: lmcsato@lmc.ericsson.se (Samy Touati) Cc: aam3@cornell.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISDN Message-ID: <199605020043.RAA00204@mistery.mcafee.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.Sola.3.91.960501152852.11616A-100000@chicago> from "Samy Touati" at May 1, 96 03:33:14 pm
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> > On Wed, 1 May 1996, Abdullah Marafie wrote: > > > I am intersted in FreeBSD but i was wondering if it supports ISDN. > > I am looking for more information on that like the hardware and cards > > it supports ..etc. > > Thank you in advance > > Yes FreeBSD will run with an external TA. > For example if you plug the bitsurfrPro into a fbsd box it will act as a > modem. > For internal cards, I'm not familiar with them. > > Samy I highly recommend an ISDN to ethernet bridge (such as the Livingston ISDN Office Router, the Ascend Pipeline 25 or Pipeline 50, or the Cisco 700 series (formerly Combinet)) The advantages are: Multiple hosts can share the PPP connection, you don't lose any bandwidth (128K/s is too fast for standard PC serial hardware), you can use them with Sun, SGI, or other types of hardware (maybe you don't want to today -- but think of where you might be next year), and any TCP/IP over ethernet should work with it. Web Pages for further info: Livingston: http://www.livingston.com (My personal favorite -- comes with their ComOS which as and elegant packet filter language and support RADIUS and some other cool features) Ascend: http://www.ascend.com (A bit spendier -- some models require you to pay extra for the IP routing software; and some require an external NT1. I don't know about packet filltering options and I've heard that they are a bear to configure -- they are the market leader and they offer Stac compression hardware to boost throughput -- when there's an ascend at the other end) Cisco: http://www.cisco.com (I don't know how well they've integrated the Combinet products into their line so I don't know if it has IP packet filtering options) Any of these will be priced between $1000 and $2000. Jim Dennis, System Administrator, McAfee Associates
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