From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 08:26:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA28303 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 08:26:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.digital.com (mail1.digital.com [204.123.2.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA28296 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 08:26:06 -0800 (PST) From: garyj@frt.dec.com Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com by mail1.digital.com (5.65 EXP 4/12/95 for V3.2/1.0/WV) id AA28122; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 08:19:39 -0800 Received: from localhost by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA30644; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 17:19:27 +0100 Message-Id: <9602081619.AA30644@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: questions%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com In-Reply-To: Message from "Ulf Zimmermann" of Thu, 08 Feb 96 07:59:51 PST. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: ISDN devices supported? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 08 Feb 96 17:19:27 +0100 X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk ulf@z-code.ncd.com writes: > On Feb 8, 12:06, garyj@frt.dec.com wrote: > > Subject: Re: ISDN devices supported? >> A TA is the most flexible solution since the German cards are designed > > for EuroISDN (the European ISDN standard) and there's no guarantee that > > they'll work correctly outside of Europe. > >-- End of excerpt from garyj@frt.dec.com > > This is not quite right anymore. The so called EuroISDN is now DSS-1, which i -s > also used by many countries outside europe. I think Japan is one of them. Als -o > is the hardware of the most cards sold in europe, very generic and there shou -ld > be no problem to use them everywhere (where ISDN exists), it is a matter of t -he > driver software. One example is a SGI Indy which has a built in ISDN interfac -e, > based on the same chip used in europe. The SGI Indy has support for >5 > different ISDN protocols. The same you get for better PC ISDN cards. > that's interesting to hear. SGI is using the Siemens chips ? None the less, a TA will work with any machine which has a serial port and communications software. The same can't be said for one of the PC ISDN cards. I conceed that my argument regarding the ISDN protocol wasn't valid :) --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de (play) gj@freebsd.org