From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 20:03:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA06346 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 20:03:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from schwing.ginsu.com (schwing.ginsu.com [205.210.24.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA06335 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 20:03:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from geoff@localhost) by schwing.ginsu.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA13524; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 23:01:23 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 23:01:22 -0500 (EST) From: Geoff Wells To: James Robertson cc: Joe Greco , witr@rwwa.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another cool hack with FreeBSD... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hi, We've had big problems getting any of the different verdor's boxes to "bond" to each other! They all seem to support different schemes. I have heard rumors that 3COM is going with the Ascend MPP "standard" which, as far as I'm concerned, is a good thing. The MPP has worked VERY well for us. Geoff. On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, James Robertson wrote: > > > On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > > As long as you're not paying per-minute charges. > True. > > >ISDN doesn't generally do compression. :-) > ISDN itself offers none, but the Pipeline 50's at least do, they use MPPP > which supports STAC data compress on the entire link. I don't know how > wide spread that is supported by other ISDN devices though. > > This idea of multible modems might be something I'll look into one > day ifthe office decides they want a bigger link to the net than they have > now (a 28.8K one), since ISDN is not available at the our current office > location. (Oddly, it WAS available at my house, so all the companies I-net > servers are here.) > > James Robertson > Treetop Internet Services > >