From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 1 06:48:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA15463 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 06:48:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isot.isot.com (root@internet-of-texas.Houston.mci.net [204.70.37.26]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA15458 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 06:48:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gism.isot.com (gism.isot.com [206.24.68.34]) by isot.isot.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id EAA22967; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 04:28:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 04:28:09 -0500 Message-Id: <199608010928.EAA22967@isot.isot.com> X-Sender: gism@ns.isot.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Joe Greco From: Global Internet Shopping Mall Subject: Re: number of servers Cc: isp@freebsd.org Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >For example, my virtual Web and FTP server fulfills those two functions and >nothing else. My services machines (currently Anacreon and Smyrno) provide >DNS, mail spooling, and NTP time services. Although Anacreon provides >primary DNS, these machines are otherwise very similar and act as redundant >backups to each other. My routers route (and firewall) and provide no other >services. I'm using internal card by Riscom n2csu which has T1 csu/dsu/router built on, and Cyclades 16 port serials. They are both in a single BSDi box which does everything. I would like to separate the server functions using FreeBSD. I was looking into separating 16 serial ports into its own PC, csu/dsu/router into its own PC which handles DNS/Mail, and Web into its own PC. Is this a good start? If separating, all PCs will still have to have FreeBSD installed execept that the un-needed functions disabled?