Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 01:17:48 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router Message-ID: <199701090917.BAA00336@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Jan 1997 14:30:53 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.970108142327.3454A-100000@harlie>
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>From The Desk Of "Eric J. Schwertfeger" : > > > On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Naturally, if the cost is $700+ on each end for ISDN routers, it isn't > going to happen. Of course, at 115K async, it would only be a 50% > improvement over 64K, so I'd like to find a way to use all the bandwidth > as well, which the Bitsurfer pro will only do with a sync interface. Well, I have an Ascend Pipeline 50 which didn't like mbone traffic however after I upgraded to their latest software rev level is now working okay. My router is used to crash anything upstream that bear the name Ascend and then finally it would nuke itself -- all with mbone traffic naturally 8) After a year or so Ascend has fixed all my problems and I happy with my setup -- I just want mo' bandwith 8) The good thing about the ascend is that I didn't have to write a driver for the router and it is somewhat supported -- I suspect their support is a lot better nowdays. Now the small issue of support,the need not write a driver , plus OS independent interface is a *big* plus . Now someone ought to really concentrate on providing a driver for a popular ISDN card here in the US -- specially, if the driver / card can support, data on one channel, voice/fax on the other or data on both channels -- in other words flexible for the SOHO market. Perhaps, someone in the linux group has a solution which we can port --- I wouldn't be shy about such effort if I was doing the work and not getting paid for it 8) Regards, Amancio
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