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In article <23JAN199600503041@eisner.decus.org>,
Matt Holdrege <holdrege@eisner.decus.org> wrote:
>In article <4e16kv$5ss@gap.cco.caltech.edu>, garnett@bioserv.compbio.caltech.edu (John Garnett) writes...
>>What Linux ISDN card/driver combinations will communicate (via ISDN line)
>>with a multiuser Ascend Pipeline 50?

I'm currently using a bitsurfer to communicate with a Pipeline 50 under
Linux...

>>I want to avoid any solutions that
>>will be limited by the speed of the Linux serial port (like the
>>Motorola Bitsurfer).  Also, I don't want to go to the expense of installing

Limited by the speed of the Linux serial port?  Why?  I mean, we're not talking
T1 speeds here, we're talking 56/64K or possibly 115/128K.  These ARE speeds
that can be handled by the serial ports with the exception of 128 (which
you'd have to run at 115.2K).  I've been running my 64K ISDN line at 115K
for months now with 0 problems.

>>a standalone ISDN/Ethernet bride or router on the Linux side.  What
>>I'd like to do is install (inside the Linux box) an internal ISDN card with
>>an ISDN driver or an ISDN card that emulates an NE2000 Ethernet card.

And you expect that option to be any cheaper than a Pipeline?

>>The question is which of the Linux ISDN card/driver combinations (if any)
>>best interoperates with the multiuser Ascend Pipeline 50?  Any contact

The best option for talking to a Pipeline is another Pipeline.  I spent
6 hours on the phone with my ISP when they switched me over to the P50.
They had a bitch of a time getting it to communicate properly, then
getting it to route properly.

>Good luck. When it comes to cost, you can get the Pipeline 25 for a lot cheaper
>than the P50. Plus you can use it for voice. That way you can drop your POTS

I was ready to order a P25 to get things working, but it was really the
P50 that was misbehaving, not the PPP software on my end (IMHO).  The P50
had VERY little in the way of debugging tools...  The problem for me
would have been that I would have needed to get an extra ethernet
board and set up a seperate ENet segment to run the Pipeline on because
of my firewall situation.  I guess with newer Linux kernels I could have
tried the aliasing, but that's still Alpha code.

Sean
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