From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 20 18:55:53 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA19616 for current-outgoing; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 18:55:53 -0700 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA19609 ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 18:55:51 -0700 Received: by brasil.moneng.mei.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11730; Thu, 20 Apr 95 20:54:48 CDT From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <9504210154.AA11730@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: wcarchive down To: gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com (Gary Palmer) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 20:54:47 -0500 (CDT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <14839.798423223@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Gary Palmer" at Apr 20, 95 05:13:43 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1283 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > We would still have to persuade BARRNET to let us have another IP address > and a second ethernet tap. This may not be easy. Even if we aren't > gonna be using much (if any) bandwidth... I guess I am not in the mood to fight to _give_ away a machine to what I consider a worthy cause. I was hoping that people would be a little more enthusiastic and try to come up with ways to implement SOMETHING... It's quite simple, really. If you want to be able to get at the console without being in the machine room, you need a communications medium. You can use phone lines. You can use Ethernet. You can use ham radio. You can use telegraph. You can use smoke signals. Somebody with knowledge of the situation has to evaluate what technologies might be used. If somebody has to grovel with BARRNET for an IP, so be it. If a phone line can be brought in (this _is_ a PoP, right?), maybe that's cheaper/easier. Whatever the hell works. Now, if, along the way, I can provide any technology or equipment that I already possess or can cheaply acquire, I will do so... ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847