Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 10:34:56 +0200 From: tobi@bland.fido.de (Tobias Ernst) To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TA Recommendations wanted... Message-ID: <MSGID_242=3A7600=2F1_374fb4d9@Fido.DE> In-Reply-To: <MSGID_242=3A4900=2F99.0_74edcb80@Fido.DE>
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Hallo Hellmuth! HM> I guess that the Zyxel's functionality is better than isdn4bsd's. It depends. A TA has certain advantages over solutions like isdn4bsd or a CAPI (like you don't have to fiddle with the kernel, it runs rock solid, has quite some additional features, you can use every software that can use a modem with it, etc.), but also there are some disadvantages. With a TA, you can only serve one channel at a time (because there is only one COM-Port to connect it to), so you normally cannot run multiple features like an answering machine and PPP simultaneously, or two simultaneous PP connections. It just depends what you need, I personally use both solutions. On my OS/2 server, I am using a TA (USR I-Modem), because I found that all CAPI drivers that I tried made the system subtly instable (one crash in 30 days or so), while on my FreeBSD machine, I preffered the ISDN card / isdn4bsd solution because until now it seems that isdn4bsd is really very stable. :-). Now the only remaining wish is that isdn4bsd would support something like /dev/ttyI on Linux, i.E. X.75 devices that can be controlled with AT commands and can connect to a remote "cFos" or TA with i.E. minicom or special purpose software. I know, the source is open and ... ;-). Viele Gruesse, Tobias To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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