Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 22:18:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Webster <andrew@guardian.fortress.org> To: "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@goldsword.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981003221659.21029B-100000@guardian.fortress.org> In-Reply-To: <199810021345.JAA17529@sabre.goldsword.com>
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On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, John T. Farmer wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Oct 1998 20:35:31 -0700 Ulf Zimmermann said: > >On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 09:50:39PM -0400, Andrew Webster wrote: > >> I'm looking for an ISDN dual channel type modem that would either have > >> - 2 Serial ports or 1 ethernet jack > >> - Receive V.34 / V.90 or ISDN calls on either one or both channels > >> > >> The USRobotics I-Modem only has 1 serial port, so it's kinda useless. > >> > >> I guess the nearest equivalent would be a 2 port Livingston PM-3. > > > >http://netgear.baynetworks.com/ > > > >Look for RT328 ISDN Router. Cost $269 at several places. Has U Interface, > >2 POTS, AUI and TP. > > Ulf, > > Read the question again. He's looking for a box that will physically > connect to an ISDN BRI line _and_ accept ISDN or analog calls (upto v.90) > as a host. As a "modem box" the nearest equiv. is the 3com/USR MP-8/i > box. Handles 4 BRIs, accepts ISDN or analog calls & presents them on > 8 async serial ports. The nearest "ethernet" box that I know of would > be the Ascend Max1800 with a digital modem card in it. The only snag with these products are the huge pricetags attached to them! Looking at the small number of chips involved in the Portmaster-3, it can't be all that expensive to make a 2 port version. This would fill an idea niche between dropping tonnes of cash on a PM-3 when you only need 2 or 3 of these boxes attached to BRIs. > > Does anybody have experience with using MVIP bus or similar > Computer-Telephony cards under FreeBSD? I've often thought that a nice > low-density RAS system could be built around FreeBSD and some of these > cards. It would require one or more cards to interface to BRI or PRI > circuits, a pot of DSP-based digital modems, and some processing power > to switch incoming call to either the modems (analog calls) or ISDN > calls to another sub-system (Ascend calls them HDLC processors). > > John > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > John T. Farmer Proprietor, GoldSword Systems > jfarmer@goldsword.com Public Internet Access in East Tennessee > Office: (423)691-6498 for info, e-mail to info@goldsword.com > Network Design, Internet Services & Servers, Consulting > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > Andrew Webster andrew@pubnix.net Key fingerprint = CF E8 16 B8 A6 DB E3 C9 83 E7 96 24 25 58 15 6E PubNIX Montreal Connected to the world Branche au monde P.O. Box 147 Cote Saint Luc, Quebec H4V 2Y3 tel 514.990.5911 http://www.pubnix.net fax 514.990.9443 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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