Hi, I have been running a ISDN modem for sometime and I have some questions regarding that. It is a external Zyxel omni.net plus TA. According to the manual it is supposed to be able to handle MLP and Multilink PPP. (What is a MLP ???) Multiple signaling protocol compatibility with DSS1, NI-1 and DMS-100 (Don't know whether any of that is useful for me!!) Supports X.75, V.110, V.120 and PPP Async-to-Sync conversion B channel protocols (PPP is the only familiar term for me - what is all that Async-to-Sync conversion stuff ???) Asynchronous Speed on Serial Port : 460.8 kbps (wow !!) As to my setup - the TA is connected to my serial port and I am currently dialing out using pppd and it is a 64kbps link. Ok now my questions. 1. Is pppd the only thing I can try to connect to my ISP ?? What about ipppd ?? By default it looks for ttyI kind of devices which I assume are for internal ISDN cards. So I tried specifying the terminal /dev/modem but it didn't like that - said my kernel doesn't have PPP support and I should have atleast ippp0 support. Again I am assuming ippp0 devices are internal cards. Also ipppd doesn't like the connect option - how am I supposed to tell it what number to dial if it won't take a chat script ?? 2. ipppd supports synchronous transmission. Is that supposed to be better for a ISDN connection ?? 3. What about all those protocols like X.75, V.110, V.120 - is there any way to use them from Linux ?? 4. As usual windows gives me a higher throughput than Linux is there anything I can do about it ?? 5. After establishing connection with my ISP there seems to be a continuous stream of the following. Jan 23 22:52:55 valium pppd[4741]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x87 magic=0xd0bca68f 78 00 18 04] Jan 23 22:52:55 valium pppd[4741]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x87 magic=0x45da28a7 69 61 63 6f] The only thing which changes is the "LCP EchoReq id". Is there something wrong or is it usual ?? Well that was a lot of question I hope someone can throw some light or atleast show me the right direction. I couldn't find any HOWTO for ISDN....Maybe I am asking it on the wrong mailing list who knows... Regards Mithun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
