From: Christian Kuhtz (chk@data-hh.hanse.de)
Date: 06/12/93


From: chk@data-hh.hanse.de (Christian Kuhtz)
Subject: Re: ISDN - Linux's killer
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 17:06:03 GMT

davej@psc.lsa.umich.edu (David A Jaeger) writes:

>Andy (andy@lill.frmug.fr.mugnet.org) wrote:
>: Yes, the german internet backbone (Germany.EU.net) in Dortmund
>: offers ISDN connectivity. I would love to hear that ISDN-card-drivers
>: are available for Linux. Is there anything planned ?

>Yes, I'd love to know the answer to this, too. I imagine this will
>become more of a demand in the U.S. soon, too.

        I tought about Linux as ISDN Gateway too. Most of the users
        will use a passive ISDN card -> the cpu has to mess around with
        everything. I think it would kill the performance of the machine
        if you're using a passive card.

        I have an active card here.. I think that one should have
        a much better performance. Yes, I'm thinking about developing
        a driver for Stollmann tina-d ISDN boards.

        Any ideas about that performance stuff?.. you have to
        deal with at least 8KBit/s. If you're using both B channels
        you're already close to 16KBit/s.... plus a lot of protocol
        overhead.

        Or am I wrong about that? Afraid of something where there
        isn't anything to be afraid of ?

        Chris

        btw: #define flames /dev/null

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