Hi,
Quoting Chris Wagner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> At 05:32 PM 11/25/99 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> >If this is a leased line, they don't have to dial.
>
> As soon as either side goes "off hook" it automatically "rings" to the other
> side. Imagine a big pipe that runs directly from you to them. You don't
> have to "tell" the other end of the pipe where to go, its already there.
> You just take the cap off one end, yell down the pipe, and the other side
> hears you and takes its cap off and you can then look at each other and talk
> to each other through this pipe. You're "connected".
>
Yes. No software extra needed? PPP? just as simple as ethernet.
> >If it's ISDN, no, you don't need a modem since the D in ISDN means digital.
>
> True but its convenient to think of it as a "modem".
>
> >> computer1 <-> modem <-> phone line <-> modem <-> computer2
>
> Yes but the "modem" in this case is a terminal adapter.
>
> If you get Courier I-Modems you can put them in Leased Line Mode. From the
> computer's point of view the Courier is just another modem and you have a
> perfectly ordinary serial port that you can write and read data from. Just
> like any other modem or serial device.
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