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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Low cost ether/isdn brouters (was PC-NFS PPP Serial/ISDN driver wanted)
- In-Reply-To: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com's message of 22 Jan 93 20:05:41 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:57:18 GMT
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- VS> == Vernon Schryver <vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
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- VS> Back to the original thread, most of us don't want to buy an ISDN
- VS> bridge. I think few of us want to forward Appletalk or any protocol
- VS> other than IP over our ISDN links. Most of us want a simple, cheap IP
- VS> router, probably one that does compression to make 64Kb seem less
- VS> slow.
-
- And if we do decide to forward AppleTalk or some other protocol, we'll
- either spend the extra money for a multiprotocol router, or we'll
- encapsulate it in IP like we already do to get it across IP-only backbones.
-
- VS> If the established (hardware) companies don't build one, then history
- VS> will repeat itself. Remember that Telebit and cisco started (I think)
- VS> as largely software efforts. Now "brouters" are common and all modems
- VS> have lots of software.
-
- I wholeheartedly agree with the preceding paragraph.
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