On 07/11/18 21:30, Paul de Weerd wrote: > There used to be external ISDN "modems" (not really modulating or > demodulating anything, but that's what marketing people called them so > people would understand what these were in the same sense as regular > modems were). These would simply connect to your serial port and > provide you with a dial up interface that you could use. With some AT > commands, these could be made to connect to the internet (if I recall > correctly, they could even emulate a real 'modem' for old-fashioned > dial-up). > > Eicon was the brand, DIVA the model of one particular example I've > actually had the "pleasure" of working with. You can still find > references on the web. The web 1.0, that is.
I distinctly remember having a USRobotics ISDN unit that looked very much like the 'real' modem models visually. It definitely took AT commands. It's possible you could turn up something on ebay or similar (actually I see one up on ebay right now selling for about a tenth of the nominal price I paid for one way back then), so it might be worth a try. > Now if you could get those to work using ppp, I have no clue. But I > think it's your best bet if you want to use your ISDN connectivity on > OpenBSD in 2018 (which you don't). Back in the day it was usually possible to wrestle those units into doing PPP. I think Paul is very much on the right track here, given that the box you connect has a traditional serial port or is able to fake one via something like a USB-to-serial adapter. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
