On Mon, January 9, 2006 14:03, Daniele Orlandi said:
> On Monday 9 January 2006 11:48, you wrote:
>>
>> Note that it was written mainly for PBXes. Their ISDN is configured as
>> P2P, not P2MP, and one of the differences is that the D channel stays
>> up.
>> Always.
>
> Actually it is not quite true. P2P lines may as well release the datalink
> connection (bring the D channel down) to be able to deactivate the layer
> 1.
>
> This is done by the telco in order to save some power by not powering idle
> lines.
>
> Some telco (most?) WILL try to release the DLC and deactivate the layer 1
> on
> both P2P and P2MP lines.
>
> Bye,
>
I don't see any reason why *ZapHFC* should try to keep the link up all the
time! If the provider wants it up, they can initiate link, if not, just
initiate when needed and - maybe - on driver init...
IMHO that design choice is causing a lot of pain!
But that is BriStuff, this is vISDN! ;-)
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