Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:01:36 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "'Dru'" <genisis@istar.ca>, "'James Wilde'" <james.wilde@telia.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: OT: ISDN and TCP/IP Message-ID: <011e01c0845a$4f6954c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101211559210.12156-100000@genisis>
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Hi All, I have one bit of advice for you! Run, not walk, to Ebay and buy yourself a used Ascend Pipeline 75 and use that for your ISDN indial. It shouldn't cost more than $75 or so and you will save yourself an enormous amount of headache. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dru >Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 1:03 PM >To: James Wilde >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: OT: ISDN and TCP/IP > > > >Hi James, > >You may find the ISDN and PPP articles at the following link helpful: > >http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/index.htm > >They're fairly technical, but may provide the missing bit of >info you're >looking for. BTW, all articles at that link make very good >reading and can >be downloaded in PDF format. > >Cheers, > >Dru > > >On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, James Wilde wrote: > >> I'd appreciate being allowed to tax the accumulated >experience and knowledge >> with the following question. >> >> My company has a modem pool which accepts incoming calls >from both analog >> and ISDN modems. I have a D-Link router behind my ISDN box >but no ISDN >> modem. I would like to be able to call the modem pool and >connect into our >> network. However it doesn't work with a simple dial-up by >the router onto >> the network. >> >> Now I know the experts are probably rolling about on the >floor laughing at >> this point, but I would like to know what it is that >prevents this kind of >> contact from working, and whether there is a software >solution available. >> >> As I see it, ISDN is merely a carrier, just like the analog >lines, and I >> can't see that an ISDN modem is going to transmit the >information by sending >> beeps at 900 hz and 1.3 khz, or whatever the frequencies >are, as the analog >> lines do. I am assuming that an ISDN modem converts the >digital TCP/IP >> packets coming from the computer to another digital format for ISDN >> transmission, whereupon some part of the modem pool at the other end >> converts the ISDN signals back into TCP/IP. >> >> Thanks for any direct or indirect (e.g. URLs) help with this >one, which has >> been puzzling me for a while. >> >> mvh/regards >> >> James >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> >> >> > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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