Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 19:02:07 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl (Peter Korsten) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISDN drivers/cards Message-ID: <199708091702.TAA00502@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <19970809055307.20710@grendel.IAEhv.nl> from "Peter Korsten" at Aug 9, 97 05:53:07 am
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As Peter Korsten wrote... > Wolfgang Helbig shared with us: > > > > > > 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. > > But as a matter of fact, raw IP over HDLC isn't really used outside > of Germany. At least, it isn't used one country to the west, the > Netherlands. I also notice that people speaking in favour of bisdn > are called 'Wolfgang' and 'Hellmuth', both your average German name. We also had to use PPP/ISDN here. I have yet to find a non-PPP ISDN capable provider here in Holland. > I need PPP to make my ISDN card of use and though the bisdn code > may be okay (I can neither confirm nor deny that), installing it > is a real pain in the you-know-what and the PPP-hack looks really > yuckie to me. But as soon as you get everything together the end result *is* stable, at least in our experiences at TCJA (http://www.tcja.nl) Took some frustrated phonecalls to Peter for help before success came ;-) Wilko _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl - Arnhem, The Netherlands |/|/ / / /( (_) Do, or do not. There is no 'try' - Yoda --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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