Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 16:10:11 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hawke@hawkewerks.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router Message-ID: <199701082310.QAA17253@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970108165303.jlemon@right.PCS> from "Jonathan Lemon" at Jan 8, 97 04:53:03 pm
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> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > > Unfortunately, the Motorola Bitsurfer is a festering piece-o-shit(tm) > > and you'd do very well to stay away from it or anything else from > > Motorola's communications products division. Cisco has also been > > doing quite a bit of testing with their stuff, and the unanimous > > decision seems to be "buy a modem or TA from Moto and you will lose." > > That's not quite fair. I have no opinion on the ISDN stuff, having never > used it, but the Motorola Power modems are pretty good. Now, if you want > to sling mud at modems, probably nothing is more deserving of the > "piece-o-shit" label than the USR's Sportster line. The Sportster 14.4 FAXmodem (I believe) is theonly one affected, and it's only a problem if you talk to Rockwell chipset modems on the other end. US Robotics has a fix (firmware) for it anyway. The Motorola modem problems don't all have easy fixes. Don't get me wrong; I'm a big fan of Motorola, normally, but the Bitsurfer is known to be a problem in all its incarnations so far; the Sportster, on the other hand, is a problem in a single incarnation, and has a fix available... it's no worse than some Seagate and Connor SCSI drives and tagged command queueing. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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