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- From: laubach@hpl.hp.com (Mark Laubach)
- Subject: Re: IDSN wanna-be questions
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 01:28:26 GMT
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- Jim Rees (rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1993Jan8.192642.5383@gandalf.ca>, cstorry@gandalf.ca (Chuck Storry) writes:
- :
- : Just a quick question from a vendor who makes ISDN TAs but not PC cards.
- : Why do you want the card in your pc ?
- :
- : Does anyone make a reasonably priced router (not bridge) that has an
- : ethernet port and an isdn port? I don't think you can get one for less than
- : about $2000. Correct me if I'm wrong.
- :
- : I agree that if cost is no object, then you really don't want a pc card.
-
- One could argue that a box with two ports is more like a bridge anyway.....
-
- There are two solutions I know of to link a PC at home with work over ISDN:
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- 1) Buy a pair of Combinet ISDN Ethernet bridges (~2K ea) and put small
- ethernet at home bridged to an ethernet segment at work. This works
- *real well*. I've got one running myself. It gives me 56Kb*2 access
- to the internet at work from my system(s) at home. (56Kb due to going
- between two COs.) There are other companies in the Bay Area using
- this mechanism. I suspect that in the next six months, between us and
- another company over on the next hill, we'll have about 50 pairs of these
- boxes running between work and home.
-
- 2) HP, as one example, makes an AT-bus ISDN card for the PC. It provides
- 2B access to ISDN and requires a similar setup at the work end: i.e.,
- ISDN card in a PC with SCO Unix providing a routing function between
- the ISDN card and an ethernet segment.
-
- Your choice.
-
- Mark Laubach
- HP Labs
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