Re: [PATCH 0/9] isdn4linux: add drivers for Siemens Gigaset ISDNDECT PABX

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Dec 19 2005 - 12:03:26 EST


On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 12:01 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 17:38 +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> > Unfortunately these don't fit our needs, as we are not dealing with a
> > network device, but with an ISDN device.
>
> Um, isn't that what the N in ISDN stands for?
>
> I guess what you mean is that although ISDN devices are obviously
> networking devices, the kernel uses a separate subsystem for

that's not obvious. They're telephony like devices. they do voice and
data. They're not ethernet or even remotely like that. You can do ppp
over it tho...


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