From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 21 09:03:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA10146 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 09:03:33 -0700 Received: from obiwan.pmr.com (obiwan.pmr.com [199.98.84.130]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA10137 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 09:03:31 -0700 Received: by obiwan.pmr.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0s2L9l-000300C; Fri, 21 Apr 95 11:02 CDT Message-Id: From: bob@obiwan.pmr.com (Bob Willcox) Subject: Re: ISDN support? To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 11:02:09 -0500 (CDT) Cc: mul@lab1033.berlin.ptb.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9504201511.AA10561@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Apr 20, 95 10:11:37 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1013 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Joe Greco wrote: > > My own experience is with external ISDN terminal adaptors - connect one to a > serial port and it looks somewhat like a modem. Works great, maybe not what > you're looking for, but it's at least a solution if you don't find any ISDN > cards (the selection isn't great from what I understand). A relatively expensive approach (what I am using here at home :-) is the Ascend Pipeline 50. It simply attaches to the ISDN line on one side (I have the one with the builtin NT1) and my ethernet LAN on the other. I have it running in a dedicated two channel connection (total of 128kb) to my ISP. The thing I like about it most is that all I had to do is plug it in, configure it (about like configuring a complex modem, I guess), and from that point on it just worked...happily takes care of itself. I don't know whether these things are available outside of the US, but I would guess that something similar is... -- Bob Willcox bob@obiwan.pmr.com (or obiwan%bob@uunet.uu.net) Austin, TX