From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 6 7:26: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ns.tcworks.net (ns.tcworks.net [216.61.218.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9982C15568 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 07:25:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ccook@tcworks.net) Received: from tcworks.net (xcess@creed.tcworks.net [216.61.218.6]) by ns.tcworks.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA97099; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 09:27:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ccook@tcworks.net) Message-ID: <37AC415A.618529A8@tcworks.net> Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 09:23:22 -0500 From: Chris Cook X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2 queries References: <37AAC688.9CC101DA@tampabay.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Martin wrote: > Hello everyone :) Hello . > > I'm looking into the ISP/ hositing business and have had mail servers, web > servers, news server and firewall NAT/IP masquerading going on an internal > network. Be prepared... it's not as glamourous as it seems ; ) > I have two queries though as I think I'm missing something. > > 1) If you can route traffic through a gateway machine, what is the > requirement for a router ? More IP's ? faster routing ? > a) Has anyone tried the Linux router project software ? The requirement for a router? I lost you here. > 2) How do you do user password authentication ? RADIUS I assume. What is the > best one to use for FreeBSD ? We use Livingston RADIUS in conjunction with portmaster 3's > 3) (but you only said there was two ; ) Best/cheapest billing software ? We rigged something up in access... easy to do and very customizable. -- Chris Cook The Computer Works http://www.tcworks.net http://www.tcworks.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message