Re: no driver change for 2.4?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 7 Aug 1999 17:04:19 +0100 (BST)


> Unfortunately, the phone companies don't allow you to connect to
> the network with uncertified hardware/driver combo's. Opening up
> the ISDN development could bring all sorts of legal trouble with
> it :(

That has nothing to do with opening up ISDN development. The code already
has checksums and a signed block so you can check for the approved ELSA
driver for Germany.

Active TA's need no L2 approval, just hardware approval as the D channel
is approved firmware not Linux

Finally most countries don't require such approvals. They recognized that
if feeding bad D channel data to an exchange caused failures they had a serious
security problem, especially as telco exchanges are right at the top of the
list of targets to hit just before a war, or before terrorist attacks

Alan

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