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Date:      Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:24:55 +0100 (MET)
From:      hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
To:        p@znet.de (Pascal Gienger)
Cc:        freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dial-Out-Capability in the rbch-driver planned? (i4b)
Message-ID:  <m10DPhY-0000ZbC@hcswork.hcs.de>
In-Reply-To: <19990217200807.A5169@finesse.paul-magazin.de> from Pascal Gienger at "Feb 17, 99 08:08:07 pm"

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From the keyboard of Pascal Gienger:

> Is there any development planned on the raw B-Channel-Driver being
> able to dial out

Yes, it is planned to implement dial out capabilities in general, although
the design phase has not come to an end yet ;-) (Any good ideas, anyone ?)

> number of binary values to the remote side)? Does it make sense for i4b?
> I would opt for something like in i4b_ipr.c, where the dialout-message
> to /dev/i4b (where isdnd catches it) is sent via i4b_l4_dialout().
> In the i4b_rbch.c this is "prepared" to be done via an ioctl. But it
> is commented out via #ifdef 0.
> I nowhere read about possible problems when uncommenting this... Sure,
> this leads to the question how to define the I4B_RBCH_DIALOUT for the
> ioctl....

This is a leftover from Eivind's MPPP preparations and it will change. 

More, i'm not satisfied with binding a telephone number permanently to
a rbch or tel interface, it has to be dynamic. It makes sense for ipr
and isp interfaces, but not for the others.

hellmuth
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