Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 11:02:09 -0500 (CDT) From: bob@obiwan.pmr.com (Bob Willcox) To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: mul@lab1033.berlin.ptb.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ISDN support? Message-ID: <m0s2L9l-000300C@obiwan.pmr.com> In-Reply-To: <9504201511.AA10561@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Apr 20, 95 10:11:37 am
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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... -- Bob Willcox bob@obiwan.pmr.com (or obiwan%bob@uunet.uu.net) Austin, TX
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