From owner-freebsd-isp Sat May 26 18:41: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from horizon.island.net.au (gen24081-1.gw.connect.com.au [203.63.133.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 761EC37B424 for ; Sat, 26 May 2001 18:40:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hugh@island.net.au) Received: from r2d2 (rc.island.net.au [203.28.142.167]) by horizon.island.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA21076; Sun, 27 May 2001 11:40:41 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <005201c0e64d$0c068cc0$0bdea8c0@island.net.au> From: "Hugh Blandford" To: Cc: References: <3B104586.A643F9A9@buckhorn.net> Subject: Re: Freeside Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 11:33:35 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, email addresses aside. Has anyone looked at Optigold ISP from Digital Point Solutions as an alternative over Platypus? I would be interested in comments. http://www.digitalpoint.com/products/isp/ Thanks, Hugh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Martin" To: Cc: Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 10:08 AM Subject: Re: Freeside > Bsdguru@aol.com wrote: > > > > Is anyone using this package with FreeBSD? Opinions? Can you bill based on > > bandwidth usage with it? > > > > Bryan > Bryan, > Freeside is decent software, and will work fine under FreeBSD. It's all > in what you want to do. I have set it up for a few small ISP's that I > remote admin. If you want a really serious billing package, the best > bang for your buck is Platypus ( http://www.boardtown.com ) They also > have a new customer care package thats really good. > > If you're looking for software to bill for bandwidth usage, IPMeter is > the hands down winner. ( http://www.IP23.com ) I will warn you that it > can be tricky to set up. > > I know that you've gotten a bad time about your e-mail address from this > list. Don't take it seriously. While I'll admit to getting a chuckle > from it, but I mean nothing by that. It's a free country after all. I > would point out to you that you asked a question about billing software, > and one of your detractors suggested proxy software as a solution. How > serious can he be? > > If you will give me a better idea of what you need to bill, and how > many, I can give you better pointers on the software. > -- > Bob Martin, CTO > InterNet Unlimited > http://www.inu.net > mailto:bob@inu.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message