From owner-freebsd-isdn Thu Feb 18 1:25: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from hcsext.hcs.de (hcsext.hcs.de [194.123.40.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A227A112D5 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 01:24:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hm@hcs.de) Received: from hcswork.hcs.de([192.76.124.5]) (2182 bytes) by hcsext.hcs.de via sendmail with P:smtp/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:24:56 +0100 (CET) (Smail-3.2.0.104 1998-Nov-20 #1 built 1998-Dec-11) Received: by hcswork.hcs.de (Smail3.1.29.0 #12) id m10DPhY-0000ZbC; Thu, 18 Feb 99 10:24 MET Message-Id: From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: Dial-Out-Capability in the rbch-driver planned? (i4b) In-Reply-To: <19990217200807.A5169@finesse.paul-magazin.de> from Pascal Gienger at "Feb 17, 99 08:08:07 pm" To: p@znet.de (Pascal Gienger) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:24:55 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Reply-To: hm@hcs.de Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1336 Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 559747-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 559747-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de 22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message