From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 16 13:09:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23491 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 13:09:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA23429 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 13:09:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from atf3r@cs.virginia.edu) Received: from ares.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa27938; 16 Mar 98 15:59 EST Received: from mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.67.12]) by ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA14156 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 15:59:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (atf3r@localhost) by mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA27448 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 15:59:42 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU: atf3r owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 15:59:08 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Jahanur R Subedar Subject: Re: Best IDSN? In-Reply-To: <350C557B.7A3B77BA@jjsoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Jahanur R Subedar wrote: > HI Adrean, > > I am using an Bitsurfer Pro external. Its always better to have it on > the external because its is to install, you never need any driver for it > all you need to find is if the what ever com port you have hooked the > external modem could be com1 which is cuaa0 or com2 which is cuaa1 thats > it. Next is to setup the ppp thats it. Advantage to Bitsurfer Pro > external is that it has lights to show that if it connected or not, > lights to show bytes are being sent. and so many other lights. Hi, I have decided to go with an external TA now using a ByteRunner 16650 I.O board. I looked into the Bitsurfer Pro, and it only claims to do 128KBaud on the I/O port, where as the Courier I claims it can deal with 230.4KBaud. I understand why you might want to pump that much data through the I/O port to a modem with compression, but I find this a bit puzzling for ISDN. When running over ISDN, you can get PPP (VJ & BSD) compression, but that doesn't affect the amount of data going to the TA, right? It is compressed/decompressed in the OS. Is there a reason why I should care that these two devices claim to have different I/O port speeds? Will the Bitsurfer limit throughput in some way? thanks, Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message