Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 10:39:43 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Carah <pete@news.interworld.net> To: mike@sentex.net Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Terminal Servers? (which one) Message-ID: <199702091839.KAA03154@news.interworld.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970131094233.0099abe0@sentex.net>
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In article <3.0.32.19970131094233.0099abe0@sentex.net> you write: > >At 01:23 AM 2/01/97 +1100, Andrew wrote: >>Hi All, >> >>Well after all the comments about Annexes what do people recommend as a >>terminal server for an ISP?. Looking for something expandable - starting >>at 30 or so ports. Presumably support SLIP/CSLIP/PPP with authentication >>on FreeBSD. Presumably they all will have ethernet of some form. How about >>handling ISDN as well as analogue modems? AAny other helpful comments? >> >>Someone told me Pormasters had a habit of spontaneous reboots. Anyone else >>heard this? > >Maybe they are running an old version of ComOS... We have several of them >and like them VERY much... 3.3.2 would reboot immediately if anyone attempted a PAP login on it. They fixed it very quickly as 3.3.2c1 but THAT leaked memory like a sieve. 3.3.3 is fairly stable but still leaks memory some. I haven't tried later than that. Note that several months production got shipped with 3.3.2 in it; you had to upgrade immediately... 3.3.1 is *very* stable but lacks some logging, especially on ISDN. pre-3.3.1 won't handle ISDN. >Check out the PM3s from Livingston.. They handle >ISDN and analog quite well.... The other issue around reboots is memory. >If you are using a PM2E with an ISDN expansion card in it, you really >should upgrade the memory as Livingston reccomends. Since we did that, we >havent had any reboots, and our dedicated lines have been staying connected >for over 70 days without a drop (the last time we rebooted it). > >Check out www.livingston.com, and have a read through the mailling archives >there. I would say mostly happy customers. Except for those that got 3.3.2 with their box and had W95 users trying to log in... Disaster city :-( >Here is one of our boxes.... >Livingston Enterprises PortMaster Version 3.3.1 >System uptime is 196 days 9 hours 13 minutes Ours aren't quite that good. The primary cause of our reboots is the console (pm_open or pm_term) application gets wedged and cancelled at the unix (or windoze) end, and you cant start another till the box gets rebooted. It would be nice to be able to kill the connection at the pm2 end without a reboot. >Also radius for Livingston (the ones who wrote it) runs quite well on >FreeBSD. Have a look at the recent USR Total Control thread regarding >their version radius... So does merit radius, though it isn't entirely obvious how to configure it... -- Pete
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