From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Oct 20 10:18:23 1995 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA11184 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 10:18:23 -0700 Received: from blob.best.net (blob.best.net [204.156.128.88]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA11174 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 10:18:14 -0700 Received: from geli.clusternet (rcarter.vip.best.com [204.156.137.2]) by blob.best.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id IAA12330; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 08:45:19 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by geli.clusternet (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA10177; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 08:41:17 -0700 Message-Id: <199510201541.IAA10177@geli.clusternet> X-Authentication-Warning: geli.clusternet: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: John Capo cc: ctassell@isn.net, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting Out In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Oct 1995 10:23:20 EDT." <199510201423.KAA19792@irbs.irbs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 08:41:16 -0700 From: "Russell L. Carter" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Charles Tassell writes: > > > > I'm just starting out on setting up a provider using FreeBSD and would like > > some "specifics" on what I need in the line of hardware. > > You should seriously consider using a terminal server, Livingston > PM2E-10 for instance. Visit http://www.livingston.com for info > and http://www.whnet.com/wolfgang for pricing. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This one is very nice! > > Router, modems, shell acounts, all on one machine is a bit much. > A router, shell/mail/www machine, and a terminal server is a > typical configuration. > > John Capo > IRBS Engineering High performance FreeBSD systems > Here's another: http://www.bsdi.com/info/becoming-an-isp-kolstad.html Cheers, Russell