I'm happy to announce that isdn4net now have a new maintainer, Steffen Barszus, who is working on a new release with more features. Please contact him if you have comments or suggestions.
I'm sorry that I haven't been able to keep up working on isdn4net for a while, but as I now have a cable connection and no more ISDN lines (or bills ;) it is rather difficult (and pointless) to keep maintaining it. I will keep this site online for reference, but it will not be updated - Steffen is planning to setup a new and updated isdn4net site in the future.
Thanks to everyone who have contributed to isdn4net with problem reports, patches, and general comments during the years. I have recived a lot of positive comments/usage reports during this time, and belive isdn4net is still running on a lot of linuxboxes around the world (I'm still interested in isdn4net usage reports btw, so if you have runned it for many years or have some special setup like dialin etc let me know).
isdn4net is a true GPL product, made by it's users for it's users - I hope it will still be providing isdn access for many many years, and wish Steffen the best of luck with the future maintance and releases!

!!! The rest of this site is old and may contain outdated/obsolete information !!!

isdn4linux configurator - version 1.4.6 - 2000-10-23

isdn4net is a collection of scripts & configuration files to help you run isdn4linux.
Designed for fast setup of a simple dialout to one ISP, but may also be used for management of complex setups.

News - Intro - Download - Required - Optional - Howto - Contact - Credits - (Norsk)

News

• Project central opened for isdn4net users/developers (2000-08-29)
  • isdn4net is now added as a project in BugTerminator, a web based project system (using the SourceForge software) intended to support all Terminator open development projects.
  • With BugTerminator isdn4net users may help themselves by using public discussion forums, contribute patches, report bugs, all done in a web-database enviroment.
  • Developers are also welcome to join the future development of isdn4net using the project central.
  • So if you have something useful to contribute to isdn4net go to the isdn4net project page now.
  • Note that BugTerminator is under construction, so some parts of it does not work yet.
• isdn4net-1.4.5 (2000-08-28)
  • Supports more cards.
  • isdnlog moved to separate init script.
  • Better checking of active interfaces when shuting down isdn4linux.
• isdn4net-1.4.3 (1999-22-11)
  • Patch from Rasmus Andersson fixes some problems with MPPP and dynamic rerouting
  • my_isdnlog.conf is now installed (still needs to be configured before you active isdnlog)
• isdn4k-utils mini RPM for RedHat6.1 (1999-20-11)
  • People having problems with dialondeman (routing) on RedHat6.1 should upgrade isdn4k-utils to a newer version.
  • This beta version seems to work well with RedHat 6.1: ftp://ftp.isdn4linux.de/pub/isdn4linux/utils/testing/
  • A temporary mini RPM (without isdnlog, docs, vbox etc) compiled and tested on RedHat 6.1 is available here:
  • ftp://ftp.terminator.net/pub/isdn4linux/RPMS/i386/isdn4k-utils-3.1beta7_mini-1.i386.rpm
• isdn4net-1.4.2 (1999-11-11)
  • Some bugfixes and some new features - use for new systems, not really needed for already working systems
  • Patch from Jesse Kuang adds MPPP support.
  • Patch from Achim Steinmetz adds support for budget,timru,conf.modules and more.
  • SysV runlevel problem fixed.
  • Small fixes and improvements.
• ISDNprofile - card and isp database (1999-3-15)
  • The web based ISDNprofile database may now be used to find and generate isdn4net profiles.
  • Currently supporting all 2.0.36 hisax cards, and a few isp profiles.
  • May also be useful for non-isdn4net users when searching for isdn information.
  • You may add, search, modify and generate profiles with this utility.
• Patch for MPPP support (1999-2-26)
  • Thanks to Jesse Kuang MPPP finally works in isdn4net.
  • First you must patch isdn4net-1.4.1
    • Download the patch for isdn4net-1.4.1 and place it in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
    • Goto this directory and type patch < isdn4net-mp.patch
  • Then reconfigure the linkprofile
  • Add SLAVE="ipppX" to your link profile (where X is an unused ippp device)
  • To use the MPPP stuff
  • First activate the link as usual: ifup ippp0
  • When you need one more link, type isdnctrl addlink ippp0
  • To close the MPPP link type isdnctrl removelink ippp0
• New announcement mailinglist (1999-2-26)
  • This list will announce news about isdn4net, isdnadmin, isdnlayer and also important isdn4linux news.
  • The announcements will be moderated and kept on a low posting level.
  • Users of the isdn4net & isdnadmin packages are encouraged to join.
  • Everyone interested in isdn4linux issues are also welcome to join.
  • Join by sending a mail to majordomo@terminator.net with subscribe isdn-announce in the message body.
• Planned feature: support for ppp ipup/ipdown scripts
  • Thanks to Mirko Zeibig ipup/ipdown support will soon be avilable in isdn4net.
  • This will be implemented in a futurer release, but requires some rewrite of the install scripts and other stuff first.
  • For now you may grab Mirko's package to try out the ipup/down support, this package is a complete script system, which will be merged into the isdn4net package in a future release.
• New isdn script project: isdnlayer (1999-2-1)
  • The goal for the isdnlayer project is to provide a distribution independent scheme for isdn4linux operation.
  • Currently in a very early development stage, the layer already contains init scripts for 4 distributions, and a proposed interface for global use.
  • Join the isdn4net development list for more info, or send me a mail if you want to try the first release of this package.

Announce list

If you are interested in announcments for isdn4net / isdnadmin / isdn4linux you are welcome to join the isdn-announce mailinglist. The list is moderated and will be kept on a low traffic level. Join by sending a mail to majordomo@terminator.net with subscribe isdn-announce in the message body.

Developer mailinglist

• This list will be used to discuss how we may create a common isdn4linux scriptsystem to work on all Linux distributions.
• If you are interested in isdn4linux script design or linux distribution independent script design feel welcome to join.
• Some other nice non-isdn4net isdn scripts are also posted to this list.
• Join by sending a mail to majordomo@terminator.net with subscribe isdn4net in the message body.

Contact

BugTerminator isdn4net resources:

Discussion forum
Help forum
Support
Patches
Bugs

Other request may be sent to the current maintainer: Stein Vråle.

Help with setup and configuration also possible if time is available.

Introduction

Current features:

• Profiles
  • All common system configuration in separate file.
  • All card configuration in separate files (one ore more cards).
  • All link configuration in separate files (one ore more links).
  • Common configurations for common setups in separate files.
• System integration
• All ISDN links can be controlled by existing network tools (ifup/down).
• ISDN system can be controlled by existing system tools (init.d).
• Flexibel administration
  • All automatic operation run by a small set of hardcoded scripts.
  • All configuration files can be configured easily by hand.
  • Most files can be configured with simple sh frontend (isdn).
  • Some configuration and status is availble using integrated system tools.
  • Use the new (alpha) GUI frontend isdnadmin to control isdn from X-windows, web browser or terminal menu.
• Open source (GPL)
  • Customize the scripts to run on any system with any configuration.
  • Report bugs and enchancments to improve the package for everyone.

More information can be found inside the package (look in /usr/doc/isdn4net-1.x after installation)

Required

isdn4net This includes all system scripts, sample configurations and isdn4linux documentation which is needed to automate the isdn4linux tools.

isdn4k-utils Package with binarys (or source) needed to run isdn4linux.

sysV linux system with support for ifup / ifdown network scripts and init scripts. isdn4net is currently only tested on RedHat 5.x, but support for other distributions will be made if someone says whats needed.

isdn-kernel Linux 2.0.36 with module support for your ISDN card. Note that common isdn cards are available in the standard rh5 distribution.

Optional

This tools are not reqired to run isdn4net, but may expand the functionality.

isdnadmin With this linuxconf module it is possible to control isdn4net from X11, HTML or terminal mode.

isdnprofile This is a web based database containing information about known isdn cards and internet providers. May also be used to generate profiles for isdn4net.

Credits

J"org Lehrke Author of the original isdn4net package. (isdn4net-1.0)

Stein Vråle Updated to 2.0.36, new profile scheme. Maintainer (isdn4net-1.1)

Mirko Zeibig

Jesse Kuang Fixed the MPPP stuff.

Achim Steinmetz conf.module support and more

Also thanks to all the people who have reported problems and suggested improvements, thanks to you isdn4net should now work quite well on most distributions and in most countries.