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  From: John Edwards <isplist@pinnacle.net.au>
  To  : Matthew Thom <matt@server.subnet.net.au>
  Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:12:53 +0930

Re: 128K ISDN Link

Matthew Thom wrote:

> I am looking to setup a 128K ISDN connection using a RedHat 7.0
> Linux box. Can anybody point me to someplace local (Adelaide)
> that I can source a PCI ISDN card that is supported by Linux ?

Adam Internet stock the Traverse NetJet cards which are supported by
RedHat. They provide 
With a little extra effort you can do DOV (voice tariff data calls) with
them as well.
 
> Has anyone out there tried this ? Is it much more difficult than
> a PPP connection using a modem ?

It's 'different' but not difficult. With a supported card in Redhat it's
as simple as adding the right RPM's and plagurising someone else's ISDN
dialup script. ISDN gets its own version of pppd (ipppd) and supports a
bunch of other functions, since even when you use both B channels it
still has a way of receiving calls.

The Traverse cards have now got a driver for freebsd (yay!) but it
doesn't yet do DOV (boo).

John Edwards

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