From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 3 05:58:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA01647 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 May 1995 05:58:37 -0700 Received: from inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com (inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com [16.1.0.33]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA01641 for ; Wed, 3 May 1995 05:58:36 -0700 Received: from tartufo.pcs.dec.com by inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com (5.65/24Feb95) id AA28272; Wed, 3 May 95 05:50:34 -0700 Received: by tartufo.pcs.dec.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.16.1 #16.39) id ; Wed, 3 May 95 14:50 MSZ Message-Id: Date: Wed, 3 May 95 14:50 MSZ From: me@tartufo.pcs.dec.com (Michael Elbel) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: jkrause@SaarLink.de, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: US-ISDN standards and ISDN in general. Newsgroups: pcs.freebsd.hackers References: <17593.799254294@time.cdrom.com> Reply-To: me@FreeBSD.org Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In pcs.freebsd.hackers you write: >The current authors of the ISDN code are coming slowly back to life >here (after I poked them with a sharp stick :-) and may be willing to >serve as a semi-reluctant focal point for other work, assuming that >anyone else is truly interested in the stuff currently in >/sys/gnu/isdn & /usr/src/gnu/usr.sbin/isdn. Actually, good you remind me to say something about it. Yes, I'm *very* interested. >Is anyone truly interested in this stuff? I'd like to see the ISDN >code either progress significantly in the next 6 months or be entirely >replaced by something that *is* progressing! I know that the Linux >folks are happily ISDN'ing with some other code that may or may not be >worth looking at, but we need to turn this into a more active project >or move on with something else, and it's my preference that we do >something with the current code if at all possible. Karlheiz and I are about to design/implement the whole internet connectivity infrastructure for our company of 1500 people. We've managed to convince the powers that it's desirable to use inexpensive PCs and FreeBSD for the gateway/firewall/ftp-server/ www-server/mail-gateway machines rather than buying some expensive commercial product on more expensive vendor-specific hardware. We're connected to the ISP via ISDN and I'm about to check if it's feasible to use the FreeBSD boxes as routers to the ISP rather than using a dedicated box. Since I don't have the necessary base hardware yet, I haven't looked at the actual code yet but I'm open for pointers about what other people use (I see the possibility to use a external ISDN "modem" that looks like any old analog thing). I'll probably at least be able to help test out / debug stuff. Michael -- Michael Elbel, PCS GmbH, Muenchen, Germany - me@FreeBSD.org Fermentation fault (coors dumped)