From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 18 13:25:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA03792 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 13:25:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA03779 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 13:25:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA14516 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 22:25:50 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id WAA08320; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 22:20:29 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970918222028.WR46922@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 22:20:28 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISDN Modems References: <199709181232.OAA09840@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199709181232.OAA09840@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Sep 18, 1997 14:32:57 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Now if ISDN cards were sold in volumes and priced reasonably (i.e. > as much as an NE2000, since they are actually simpler!) and accessed > through a dedicated device driver, then things would certainly be > different. They (almost) are. I got my Teles card for DEM 100 (~ USD 60 these days). Still a lot cheaper than a router, although Søren told me that some 3Com part is getting closer these days. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)