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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 1996 19:59:00 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ISDN code removal, final warning. 
Message-ID:  <3364.845920740@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Oct 1996 03:46:28 %2B1000." <199610211746.DAA29279@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> 

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In message <199610211746.DAA29279@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>, michael butler writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>
>> I agree that putting all the Q931 in userland is a good idea, if nothing
>> else, then for the developers of it.
>
>First up, I confess to not knowing much about ISDN at this level so my
>question is likely naive at best .. does this layer have anything to do with
>selecting the switch type ? The reason I ask is that we have a "standard"
>(aka TS-013) which is almost totally unknown outside of Oz .. 

Yeah, Q.931 is the protocol that runs the show.  As all other protocols
from CCITT (now ITU-T) it has options by the boatloads and is so
heavy that you reserve 128kbit/sec on a 2048kbut/sec circuit for it.

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