Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!csn!ub!dsinc!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: sethcohn%alchemy.uucp@theory.tn.cornell.edu (seth cohn) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Network Interfaces: What's the Difference? Message-ID: <16568@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 29 Jan 91 17:43:19 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Alchemy International, Ithaca, N.Y. Lines: 11 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 81, Message 7 of 8 I recently had a second phone installed for a BBS system. The operator gave me a choice of: 1) a testable network interface 2) a NONtestable network interface What's the difference? (Besides about $5 :) ) Seth Cohn