From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 24 01:10:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id BAA03354 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 01:10:37 -0700 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA03346 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 01:10:30 -0700 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.v-site.net [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id BAA07181; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 01:08:37 -0700 Message-Id: <199508240808.BAA07181@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: fn@trinity.radio-do.de (Frank Nobis), jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, terryl@CS.Stanford.EDU, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISDN Anyone? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Aug 1995 00:44:00 PDT." <199508240744.AAA01584@freefall.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 01:08:35 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>> Poul-Henning Kamp said: > > > > > Is anyone in the US using ISDN to a local service provider using Fre eBSD > > > > > as a router for a LAN? If so, how to? > > > > > > Anybody considering ISDN: Check out the new Zyxel 2864I, that is > > > a killer-device for ISDN. Talks to analog modems too! > > > > > > http://www.zyxel.com > > > > > > > First it sounds good, but yesterday I did a test between a Mac with > > the Zyxel against a German ISP. We encountered one big Problem in the > > asynchron to synchron conversion. > > > > A MTU greater then 240 will result in CRC errors on the MacPPP. > > Report it to Zyxel then, they are very open for bug-reports. > > Still, you cannot find that amount of functionality anywhere else > and certainly not for that price... Perhaps the Ascend Pipeline 50 can matche the Zyxel option. At any rate, PacBell offers a *free* Pipeline 50 if you signed up for 2 years. Amancio