From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 31 19:23:18 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A493016A4CE for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:23:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (smtprelay01.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA10243D3F for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:23:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stefan.pietsch@web.de) Received: (qmail 28484 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2005 19:23:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web.de) (937371@[212.144.210.165]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 31 Jan 2005 19:23:16 -0000 Message-ID: <41FE859B.A93A509A@web.de> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:23:07 +0100 From: Stefan Pietsch X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Ted Mittelstaedt Subject: Re: ISDN connection problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:23:18 -0000 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > If it doesen't then your probably going to need to try another ISDN > card. > > By the way, have you by chance priced out ISDN routers lately? For > example: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=73321&item=5746457 > 512&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW > > Cisco 1603's are going for under $20USD. The 1603 is the Euro version > of Cisco's ISDN router and understands the Euro ISDN switches (in > contrast to the 1604 which doesen't have an ST interface and only > understands American ISDN switches) > > At the ISP I work at we still do a lot of dialup ISDN because we are > the only ISP left in town that will guarentee multilinking. During > the last year I've pretty much told all customers that we are only > supporting the Cisco 1604 anymore, simply because the things are so > darn cheap now that it's less of an annoyance factor to me to deal > with more than one kind of router. (Despite the fact that I've > configured more than a dozen different brands of ISDN routers during > the heyday of ISDN) I wanted to avoid buying another box, so I installed a dusty linux distribution with a 2.2 kernel. As far as I can I see after this weekend, the ISDN connection stays up for several hours. In the end, it works. :) Stefan