ISDN info (for UK)
Giving up on ever seeing ADSL (too far away from the exchange, screw you BT!) I'm installing ISDN as my best hope this side of the next millenium. I know a lot about modems and nothing about ISDN so I'd appreciate some advice on what ISDN card to insall for use in England. These are issues (using that word the way God intended, not the way Microsoft perverted!) which I can see I need to resolve: 1) compatiblity between modems is always a problem - I have two modems which work fine with one ISP each and abysmally if I swap them over. I doubt this is an issue with ISDN cards or is it? 2) Linux hardware support - clearly the Howto is going to be the bible but is there a recommended brand of ISDN card for Linux? 3) Linux software - does pppd still apply (I use wvdial) or does one have to use something else? 4) channel bonding - anything I should know? 5) anything other consideration I haven't listed? I'd be grateful for any thoughts before I get myself hopelessly confused ;) Cheers, Robin Collins
Re: ISDN info (for UK)
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 10:24:09AM +0100, Robin Collins wrote: 1) compatiblity between modems is always a problem - I have two modems which work fine with one ISP each and abysmally if I swap them over. I doubt this is an issue with ISDN cards or is it? Never heard of. 2) Linux hardware support - clearly the Howto is going to be the bible but is there a recommended brand of ISDN card for Linux? Since I live in Germany I can just tell you about the brands that are available here. The ISDN-cards of AVM work perfectly, if you are able to buy one - get it. A pretty good list of all supported ISDN-cards is available at: http://cdb.suse.de/cgi-bin/scdb?HTML=ENGLISH/cdb_listtemplates/menu.htmLANG=ENGLISH 3) Linux software - does pppd still apply (I use wvdial) or does one have to use something else? isdnutils 4) channel bonding - anything I should know? Never tried... 5) anything other consideration I haven't listed? You need to recompile Kernel with ISDN-Support Phil
Re: ISDN info (for UK)
Giving up on ever seeing ADSL (too far away from the exchange, screw you BT!) I'm installing ISDN as my best hope this side of the next millenium. I know a lot about modems and nothing about ISDN so I'd appreciate some advice on what ISDN card to insall for use in England. These are issues (using that word the way God intended, not the way Microsoft perverted!) which I can see I need to resolve: 1) compatiblity between modems is always a problem - I have two modems which work fine with one ISP each and abysmally if I swap them over. I doubt this is an issue with ISDN cards or is it? I believe it is not an issue since the ISDN is, as far as I know, a more tight spec. But why not check this with your ISP? 2) Linux hardware support - clearly the Howto is going to be the bible but is there a recommended brand of ISDN card for Linux? I do not know about any recommended one. You might check the isdnutils for the supported cards. I believe the passive cards that are supported by the Hisax module are the cheaper and thus more popular. 3) Linux software - does pppd still apply (I use wvdial) or does one have to use something else? Probably not because it is quite evil to use ppp over ISDN. Yet there is something similar, at least for the user: ipppd. As for wvdial, the isdnutils provides similar functions. 4) channel bonding - anything I should know? 5) anything other consideration I haven't listed? I'd be grateful for any thoughts before I get myself hopelessly confused ;) Cheers, Robin Collins -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
