From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 24 10:20:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3218714D32; Mon, 24 May 1999 10:20:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA91192; Mon, 24 May 1999 19:20:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Bart van Leeuwen Cc: Tom , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , isdn@freebsd.org, blitz@pdq.net, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISDN Terminal adapter no work References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 24 May 1999 19:20:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: Bart van Leeuwen's message of "Mon, 24 May 1999 19:01:06 +0200 (CEST)" Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bart van Leeuwen writes: > Still there are a lot of advantages when using isdn, and esp. when > compared to 2 33k6 connections the fact that its a single connection that > can be setup quickly and requires very little overhead to be managed is > where your potential performance gains are. There was never talk of using two 33k6 modems instead of an ISDN line. Somebody claimed that an ISDN TA was a "very fast modem", to which I replied that the difference was not large enough to warrant the use of the word "very". DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message