From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 22 01:57:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA28503 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 01:57:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA28498 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 01:57:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA16908 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 22 Aug 1996 01:56:29 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA11954; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 01:54:40 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199608220854.BAA11954@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Recommendations, please. To: dsiliceo@adam.es (Domingo Siliceo) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 01:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608220623.HAA12751@afrodita.adam.es> from Domingo Siliceo at "Aug 22, 96 07:30:57 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi all, > I've been playing with FreeBSD for three or four months and having a lot > of fun. > > Now I'm thinking about to become a (little) ISP. I have a 486 DX/4 100 > with 32Mb, 1Gb hard disk and one modem (planning to increase this number > to three or four). Nothing more. I am part of a co-op group that uses a 486DX2/66 with 16MB, 203MB hard disk and a multiport serial card to route between 10 dial up slip lines and a 56K FRAD. It works like a champ and has been for several years. It is a minimal service, providing nothing more than routing of packets and DNS services for the sixteen class C addresses in our CIDR block. It runs gated as a routing protocol, and you should probably become familiar with that as well. > > What do you think I need (experience aside 8-)? Of course, my plan is to > use FreeBSD 2.1.0 as the basis. Get yourself upgraded to FreeBSD 2.1.5, then find out how to use CTM and get yourself updated to the changes in the -stable branch that have occured since 2.1.5. FreeBSD 2.1.0 will work for you, but you'll be in a lot better shape if you run the latest release. > Thanks beforehand for your time. Ohhh... and don't skimp on modems, cheap modems mean dropped carrier, and that means aggrivated clients. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD