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Date:      Fri, 8 Aug 1997 23:53:39 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
To:        steve@visint.co.uk (Stephen Roome)
Cc:        helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De, perhaps@yes.no, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ISDN drivers/cards
Message-ID:  <199708082153.XAA12878@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970808152322.29407L-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk> from Stephen Roome at "Aug 8, 97 03:24:42 pm"

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> On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Wolfgang Helbig wrote:
> > But w/o running routed and with some care while editing bisdnd.cfg
> > it works like a charm.  You're right, the installation of bisdnd
> > including the kernel patches is not the most elegant thing under
> > the sun--and this is getting worse with every committ to the kernel
> > sources, that change the interface.
> 
> This is really my main point, bisdn works for some folks and not for
> other, but is no real reliable base for part of FreeBSD. It's a mess and
> that could explain why some people have so much luck and other don't.
> Mostly boiling down to "luck" I expect.

The messy part starts when you try to run ppp over isdn. But straight
bisdn-097 works fine for a lot of people. I installed it nearly a year ago
successfully. It was one of the first things I did with FreeBSD, so
it didn't take much expertise to install.

Wolfgang



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