Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:47:52 +0200 (CEST) From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl (Peter Korsten) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISDN drivers/cards Message-ID: <m0wxAvw-00003eC@bert.kts.org> In-Reply-To: <19970809055307.20710@grendel.IAEhv.nl> from Peter Korsten at "Aug 9, 97 05:53:07 am"
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Peter Korsten wrote:
> But as a matter of fact, raw IP over HDLC isn't really used outside
> of Germany.
This might be possible, although it is more and more true also in
germany. It came from the time, when there were no routers with
ISDN interfaces available but only DOS-based CAPI-programs which
were used in the beginning as IP router replacement. Raw HDLC
is/was the default for CAPI 1.1 B-channel protocol and - its
perfectly usable for this.
But you are right, PPP is the way to go!
To write free software, there must be a _personal_ problem to
solve - and i don't need PPP, so until now i don't have a real
pressure to write a good PPP handling support.
Until now, everyone was just crying "we need PPP" but nobody
of the ones who were crying did anything to implement it cleanly.
But, it seems as the situation will change, as Joerg saw a need
to implement kernel sync PPP, it looks like it will be part of
the son of bisdn.
hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis hm@kts.org Hamburg, Europe
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