From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 31 06:47:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA11917 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 06:47:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA11908; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 06:47:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA06374; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:47:11 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA05342; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:54:32 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199610311454.PAA05342@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: Any ISDN-BRI cards work under FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <9610311240.AA12672@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> from "garyj@frt.dec.com" at "Oct 31, 96 01:40:07 pm" To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:54:32 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, isdn@muc.ditec.de Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > NOTE: I added current to the Cc for wider distribution in the hope > that someone will positively respond to my question below. I added > the isdn mail-list because it may be of general interest to the people > on that list. > > grog@lemis.de writes: > > garyj@frt.dec.com writes: > > > > > > brian@mediacity.com writes: > > >> I'm currently using external BitSurfer Pros, but would like to > > >> recover the bandwidth that is lost to the serial port 115200 bps limit > > >> and the ASYNC/SYNC conversion. > > > > > > even with a card you can't do that because the current ISDN code does > > > not support channel aggregation. It's one of the things which are planned > > > for the (who knows how distant) future. > > > > Still, you could have mentioned: > > > > In Germany and other parts of Europe, the Teles S0 and compatible > > boards are supported. They *should* work in the US, though nobody's I'd really be surprised if these cards would work at 56Kb/s and if they's connect physically. > > done it yet. They currently only run single channel connections (you > > can have two different connections to different destinations). The > > theoretical maximum throughput is 8 kB/s (64,000 bps), which is > > somewhat less than the theoretical maximum of the 115.2 kbps lines > > (11.52 kB/s). Why do you divide by 8 in the one case and by 10 in the other? > > > > this is true, but since he wanted to use all the available bandwidth > and it won't work with the current code I thought he should be informed. > > I'm going to be in California from Nov 7 til Nov 28 and would be more > than willing to bring a pair of (ISA) cards from Germany and try to get the > bisdn code working in the US. I already asked Jordan, but he can't > accomodate me. Is there anyone in the Bay Area who has ISDN and a pair > of boxes who'd be willing to make them available for this ? > > > > --- > Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com > (home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de > (play) gj@freebsd.org > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de