> On November 30th, FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 8.0 will have reached their FreeBSD -7 & -8 do not support ISDN I'm told. So 6.4 is the last working FreeBSD ISDN.
DSL is faster than ISDN, but Losing ISDN would be unfortunate: - Not all can get DSL speed, if they live far from phone exchange. - ISDN allows one more security (caller ID comes from phone company), additional to whatever crypto keys/passwords. - ISDN on the PC allows one to have Name (via lookup of number) of phone caller & which incoming destination number received call, show up on an X Term - I've had that with FreeBSD over 10+ years now :-) Could easily be hooked to a database springing up a a custome xterm according to calling customer ID, called number & time of day (all being used to select which service info ) But if we drop ISDN ...! Could FreeBSD reinsert ISDN back into current/8/7 support ? Perhaps via: - a student SOC project ? - FreeBSD foundation paying a FreeBSD consultant (I know one who has the expertise already, has the time, & could use some money (I don't mean me, & he didn't aske me to post this, it'll come as a suprise to him :-) - Or whatever other method to get ISDN back in kernel ? Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text, Not HTML, quoted-printable & base 64 dumped with spam. Avoid top posting, It cripples itemised cumulative responses. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"