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Date:      Fri, 21 Apr 1995 11:14:41 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        bob@obiwan.pmr.com (Bob Willcox)
Cc:        mul@lab1033.berlin.ptb.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ISDN support?
Message-ID:  <9504211614.AA12714@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <m0s2L9l-000300C@obiwan.pmr.com> from "Bob Willcox" at Apr 21, 95 11:02:09 am

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> 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...

We do that out at work - nice transparent solution.  We use Combinet.  We
have a PRI on this end and a concentrator.  We install BRI's and add an
Ethernet card to an employee's home machine.  You'd never know you weren't
directly on our hell-net (the broadcasts go thru too).

... Joe

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Joe Greco - Systems Software Engineer, UNIX/Network Hacker, Etc.   414/362-3617
Marquette Electronics, Inc. - R&D - Milwaukee, WI                jgreco@mei.com



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