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There are normally two telephone numbers for your ISDN telephone line. For certain types of ISDN service, such as AT&T Custom Point-to-Point, there is only one telephone number.
Many types of ISDN service do not include service profile identifiers (SPIDs). These include AT&T Custom Point-to-Point service and most types of ISDN service outside North America.
In many cases, the information your telephone company provides about the telephone switch for your ISDN service (such as an AT&T 5ESS or a Northern Telecom DMS-100) is separate from information about your ISDN service type (such as NI-1 or Point-to-Point). When you specify a "switch type" later in QuickStart, you'll specify both the switch type and the service type with a single setting. For example, setting Switch Type to NI-1 specifies National ISDN-1 service provided from any switch, and you do not need to specify the switch type separately. Similarly, setting Switch Type to AT&T Point-to-Point specifies both the switch type (AT&T 5ESS) and the service type (Point-to-Point) with a single setting.
The telephone number for connecting the Pipeline to the network is the telephone number of an ISDN device at the remote location, such as an Internet service provider or, if you are a telecommuter, your main office. Your Pipeline dials and connects to this remote device. The remote device then connects you to the rest of the network.
In all but a few cases, you need to specify a user name and password to connect to a remote network.
An Internet Protocol (IP) address contains four numbers separated by periods, such as 206.65.212.178. It uniquely identifies a computer or other device on the Internet or on another network that uses TCP/IP protocols. For more information, see TCP/IP in the Networking Glossary.
You need to specify a frame type when connecting to a Novell NetWare network. Examples of frame types are IEEE 802.3, Ethernet II, and SNAP. For more information, see IPX in the Networking Glossary.
You also need to specify a network number when connecting to a Novell NetWare network. This is an eight-digit hexadecimal number (where each digit can be 0-9 or A-F), such as A0010001. For more information, see IPX in the Networking Glossary.