Topic: ISDN card

[Torsten]

Hello there,
yesterday was the first time that I got in contact with this great router & gateway distribution.
The only Linux experiences I have are based on SuSE distributions, which work a little bit different in some parts, and exactly that's my prob now.
Here in germany isdn cards are very common, and only a few are using external isdn adapters. But as far as I can see it, or I didn't find it, e-smith 4.1 does not support any isdn cards.
Is there any way to use an isdn card?
What does I have to install?
Where does I get the modules?
Any comment is welcome ...

Thanks for your time & help.

Torsten

[Torsten]

I forgot to say that I searched for the terms "isdn" and "isdn card", but I found nothing for this problem ...

[Kees Blokland]

I'm using a external router for this reason.
Look at http://www.fli4l.de

I have been using this one for over 6 months now, without any problems.
It's very easy to set up, runs on the usual 486 with 1 floppy etc, and has excellent support by the german community!
It's known to work in the UK, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and Belgium.

The only thing to watch out for is that you do not enable NTP, because the timeserver tries every 2 minutes to find out what time it is. If you are charged by the minute connection time, this gets very expensive.

kees



kees

[Torsten]

I have an Zyxel Prestige here and it works fine with that external box.
But I'd like to use an "system in a box", no external parts should be neccessary.

I also tried to "upgrade" version 4.1 by using the instructions from
http://internet-sicherheit.net/isdn4es-howto.html, but when doing that I get some error messages.

It's not that urgent to find a solution, but I'm sure somebody our there (in the endless space... ), has an good idea.

Cheers
Torsten

[Andreas Meier]

Hallo Kees,

nice posting but i need some more infos to fit my problem !

Did you include all hostnames (named services) like
ftp.domainname.de
www.domainname.de
with there own specific ip adress in you config file ?

I´ve the following problem:

- The e-smith server could not access the internet trough the
  fli4l router (failed access test in the pure config menue) but
  when i try to ping a external adress outside my local net the
  fli4l router starts to dial out and gives a response back !
- So what could that be......i´m not a it profi

Andreas Meier

[guestHH]

Hi Andreas,

I did the following:

Configure e-smith as a dedicated server.

External proxy = yes (ip fli4l & correct port)
External DNS = yes (ip fli4l)

save & reboot

Configure fli4l right ofcourse. (Watch the proxy port, have it right in junkbuster config file)

Hope this little helps.

btw. Both Klaus Mueller & K. Blokland have very good how-to to make a passive ISDN card workt with e-smith.

The How-to's of Klaus at http://internet-sicherheit.net/isdn4es-howto.html
and the additional (technical) hints 'n tips from Kees Blokland at:
http://www.blokland.co.uk/Kees/docs/e-smith/isdn4es.htm
http://www.blokland.co.uk/Kees/docs/e-smith/debug-modem-howto.htm
http://www.blokland.co.uk/Kees/docs/e-smith/ISDN-working.htm

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