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- From: dcarr@gandalf.ca (Dave Carr)
- Subject: Re: Low cost ether/isdn brouters (was PC-NFS PPP Serial/ISDN driver wanted)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.142206.17177@gandalf.ca>
- Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd.
- References: <1993Jan20.191004.3253@gandalf.ca> <1993Jan21.012021.8668@informix.com> <1993Jan21.151029.13640@gandalf.ca> <1993Jan22.002029.27149@informix.com>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:22:06 GMT
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- In <1993Jan22.002029.27149@informix.com> johng@informix.com (John Galloway) writes:
-
- >Educate me if you would, on just what is the difference (in function and use)
- >of a TA Vs. an NT1.
-
- An NT1 attaches directly to the TELCO lines. On the other side, it provides
- a passive bus for connection of the customers equipment. Multiple devices
- (TAs, phones,etc.) are basically multi-dropped on the passive bus. The
- TA provides conversion from the ISDN 2B+D to serial conversion (async or
- sync) and the call control software.
- >>
- >I wasn't being really specific on RIP etc. basically I just want a box
- >that sits on my ethernet, and talks to my host(s) to get net info, configures
- >itself and works. I supply my IP addr, and a phone number and thats it.
-
- Do you want the B-channels up permanently? You probably want dial on
- demand, with some intelligence at both ends to establish the link only
- when required. Given the choice between a standard bridge or router,
- the router wins. But is a full router necessary in this case?
-
- I would argue that very little router code needs to be added to the
- bridge to gain this functionality. By adding static routing to our bridge
- I believe we have met your needs.
-
- >>packet. In terms of delay, the packet gets to the remote end sooner with
- >>compression, even if retransmission is necessary (assuming >2:1).
- >This is an area I am not clear on (in fact the biggest problem in
- >interoperability between isdn vendors seems to be how they implemnt the
- >2 B channels). I assume "bonding" is some sort of synchronized action
- >between the channels?
-
- Bonding makes one 128K channel by interleaving at the data stream bit level.
- It is necessary to account for the different delays between the B channels.
- The alternative is to run LAPB multilink protocol. But you are right.
- There is no standard yet on multilink.
- It seems like running them seperatly would be
- >a good idea, excpet for the degenerate case of some app wanting an
- >ack after each packet and thus not being able to make use of the
- >higher performnce (since a single tcp/ip -> ethernet packet would go
- >entirely onto one channel), but that a stupid app.
-
- With bonding you only have one channel. With some software running on top
- of multilink, you can split the packet in pieces and load balance.
- Fragmentation in this case is not done like a router, but similar to the
- more bit in X.25.
-
-