Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 14:15:05 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de To: plm@xs4all.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: bisdn Message-ID: <199702011315.OAA19288@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <8720b6wb2e.fsf@localhost.xs4all.nl> from Peter Mutsaers at "Jan 28, 97 07:47:21 am"
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Peter Mutsaers writes: >> > On Mon, 27 Jan 1997 15:42:04 +0100 (MET), Greg Lehey >> > <grog@lemis.de> said: > > GL> Well, to be fair, Gary Jennejohn replied and told me that this > GL> related to ppp, which I don't use. I think the problem there > GL> is that not many people use ppp over here, so it's not > GL> surprising that it's taking a long time. > > Yes, that is the problem for most people. I'm surprised that you don't > use PPP! Here all ISP's offer ISDN access only through syncPPP. I > can't even think of another way. If you don't use PPP, then how do you > get TCP/IP over ISDN? Why should you need ppp to run IP? None of the high-speed lines do. They run a straight layer 2 protocol--HDLC, in the case of ISDN over here. ppp just adds encapsulation overhead. Greg
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