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Date:      Mon, 23 Jun 1997 14:21:47 -0400
From:      dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>, jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ISDN
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970623142144.00ad7610@etinc.com>

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At 10:01 AM 6/23/97 -0700, Jim Shankland wrote:
>>From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 00:30:43 1997
>Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 02:39:50 -0400 (EDT)
>From: "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com>
>To: jas@flyingfox.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com
>Subject: Re: ISDN
>Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, jfarmer@goldsword.com, tomthai@future.net
>Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
>X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
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>
>John T. Farmer <jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com> writes:
>
>> What about setting up the TA with the DTE speed greater than the 128k?
>> I know that the usr I-courier supports upto 230kb/s DTE speeds (and my
>> Computone Intelliserver supports upto 200kb/s...)
>> 
>> The other option would be to look at using a synchronous port of some 
>> sort...
>
>Sure.  Or just throw in the towel and get a Pipe50 or equivalent.  Despite
>its shortcomings (like the User Interface From Hell (TM)), I'd sooner
>live with a stack of Pipe50's in the office than a stack of ISDN TA's
>plugged into serial ports at 115.2 Kb/s or 230.4 Kb/s.  I can find
>better ways to give myself a headache :-).
>
>Now if there were an internal ISDN card that did the PPP framing and
>CRC generation/checking itself, and interrupted once per PPP frame
>(analogous to what an Ethernet card does), and were robust and
>reliable and well-supported and cheap, and came with a solid FreeBSD
>driver, or at least with good enough support and specs to write a
>solid FreeBSD driver, and ... oops, I just woke up.

Yeah, and you forgot....

..and costs $89......

db


>
>Jim Shankland
>Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.
>
>



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