From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Oct 14 15:50:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA21265 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 14 Oct 1995 15:50:11 -0700 Received: from smople.thehub.com.au ([203.17.162.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA21260 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 1995 15:50:08 -0700 Received: (from richard@localhost) by smople.thehub.com.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA12496; Sun, 15 Oct 1995 08:45:15 GMT Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 08:45:15 +0000 () From: Richard J Uren To: freebsd-isp@Freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting an ISP! In-Reply-To: <199510141943.PAA16746@rustic> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@Freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 14 Oct 1995, Johanan L. Codona wrote: > > However, before we proceed, I have a number of questions that this > group might help answer. > > Questions: > > * Is FreeBSD a good choice for our OS? (As opposed to BSDI, our second > choice.) > Our neck of the woods is FreeBSD vs Linux, however FreeBSD vs BSDI ? Ive never used BSDI. > * What version of FreeBSD should we use? (We are looking to go > "on-the-air" in about 4-6 weeks.) > We've had no probs with the cdrom, everything you need is on it pretty much. > * We are thinking about a fast Pentium with SCSI disks for storage. > What are the best choices for: > - multi-serial cards > - memory per user > - networking cards > - other hardware? We use xylogics' annexes to handle user logins. They do the accouting handle slip, ppp (mostly),terminal sessions, telnet etc.. . richard richard@thehub.com.au