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 >Precedence: bulk > >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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