From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 21 09:17:12 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA10403 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 09:17:12 -0700 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA10397 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 09:17:09 -0700 Received: by brasil.moneng.mei.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12714; Fri, 21 Apr 95 11:14:41 CDT From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <9504211614.AA12714@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: ISDN support? To: bob@obiwan.pmr.com (Bob Willcox) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 11:14:41 -0500 (CDT) Cc: mul@lab1033.berlin.ptb.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Bob Willcox" at Apr 21, 95 11:02:09 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1499 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... 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Software Engineer, UNIX/Network Hacker, Etc. 414/362-3617 Marquette Electronics, Inc. - R&D - Milwaukee, WI jgreco@mei.com