From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Feb 17 11:35:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA24036 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 11:35:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (etinc.com [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA24031 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 11:35:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp-082.etinc.com (ppp-082.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA06263; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 14:37:54 -0500 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 14:37:54 -0500 Message-Id: <199602171937.OAA06263@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Stephen Fisher From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Frame Relay and FreeBSD Cc: isp@freebsd.org Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >On Fri, 16 Feb 1996, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > >> > >> A good rule of thumb: If you know un*x, use un*x....if you don't, use >> > >> something else. > >[clip] > >> > added hop, at the minimum). From the talk about problems with the PLs, >> > I'd say its a pretty risky choice. > >Yeah. That 1.6ms hop to my router sure does hender things.. :) Which is about the same performance difference as using a pentium instead of a '386 for your server...which do you use? :-) Plus it keeps up to 3Mbs of traffic off your ethernet........ > >Why bother talking about this so much? It's the same thing I see / have >seen in the Linux-ISP list, and it gets us no where since neither side >will bother switching. Lots of people are switching. People stayed with DOS for awhile...but there arent many left now... More and more ISPs are realizing what a selling point it is to have a single box, virtually complete internet access solution for getting private line business. And there are a lot of people/companies that are looking for a good reason to get a unix system in house. db ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX