Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 12:28:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: multimedia@rah.star-gate.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bragging rights.. Message-ID: <199510191728.MAA28344@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <17846.814081219@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 18, 95 10:40:19 pm
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> A TA is hooked to a normal FreeBSD box with a standard 16550 serial > port on both ends. I'm using the ADTRAN TAs - not the dirt-cheapest > or the highest tech, but they're the only ones that did *everything* I > wanted and did it *now*. Talk to Motorola and it's "yeah, you can > have async bonding in a PROM upgrade RSN - we promise!" We've been running the Motorola async bonding since July or August. Fire your rep. > and a pair of FreeBSD boxes - no other custom hardware of any sort was > required. I can see a lot of 386 boxes coming back to service as > dedicated ISDN routers in the next few years.. :-) I've been using 386's for a long time as a "dedicated application" platform... they make great routers, terminal servers, etc. etc. Maybe this works better for me because I believe in functional separation, and generally don't have a box doing lots of diverse chores. It definitely makes individual system upgrades much easier to contemplate. However it tends to add to the number of systems that must be upgraded :-/ > Now if I can just get my hands on a pair of ISDN cards to get that > full pipe.. [he gazes off into the distance..] This is a good thing to be looking towards. ... JG
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