Re: ISDN on OpenBSD 3.1.

[Michael van der Westhuizen <Michael.vanderWesthuizen@intec.co.za>]

Disappeared? Ok, you haven't been in the third-word recently have you? ISDN
TA's are pretty much the only way anybody uses an ISDN BRI in South Africa.

I'm about to look at an external USR/3Com Courier-I as a dialup solution
(for me, from home) on OpenBSD 3.0 - I'm hoping that a combination of the
right At commands etc. will let me utilise both channels for callback, then
I can convince my neighbour (who shares the connection) to drop Windows XP
ICS (yes, really) and just go for an OpenBSD box with Squid.

There's still a huge need in many parts of the world to support in this way.
As far as I'm concerned I don't want yet another device on my network, and
as far as ISDN adapters go, if using an external ISDN modem will work (like
I'm going to), the an internal should work too. The only thing I'm not sure
about is if the modem card will be seen as a supported UART/serial port by
OpenBSD... anybody know the answer to this?

If this works without too much pain I'll have a similar job to do converting
a (yuk) Windows NT dialup server to OpenBSD... which is something I *really*
want to do.

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: L. V. Lammert [mailto:lvl@omnitec.net]
Sent: 31 July 2002 12:56
To: Henning Brauer; tech@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: ISDN on OpenBSD 3.1.


At 05:47 PM 7/30/02, Henning Brauer wrote:

>nothing wrong with that. external ISDN TAs should be fine.
>you might need to hack the ppp scripts a bit (additional AT commands).

A router isn't a TA - it will autodial depending on the link criteria used 
(e.g. time to disconect) - no need for a script at all. TAs really have 
disappeared in the past five years.

         Lee

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    Leland V. Lammert                                lvl@omnitec.net
       Chief Scientist                         Omnitec Corporation
   Network/Internet Consultants              www.omnitec.net
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