From owner-freebsd-isp Sat May 26 20:15:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.hei.net (salmon.hei.net [209.222.163.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5924A37B422 for ; Sat, 26 May 2001 20:15:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@hei.net) Received: (qmail 24870 invoked from network); 27 May 2001 03:15:07 -0000 Received: from trout.hei.net (HELO trout) (209.222.163.131) by salmon.hei.net with SMTP; 27 May 2001 03:15:07 -0000 Message-ID: <000d01c0e65b$c78d1be0$83a3ded1@hei.net> From: "John Hengstler" To: "Hugh Blandford" Cc: References: <3B104586.A643F9A9@buckhorn.net> <005201c0e64d$0c068cc0$0bdea8c0@island.net.au> Subject: Re: Freeside Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 20:19:02 -0700 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 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 Our company has been using Optigold for a year or so. Wanted to use Freeside a while back, but was too complicated at the time to set up. Optigold has worked flawlessly since we started using it. It has a free 100 user key. After that you have to pay... Good Luck. John Hengstler HEI Communications ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh Blandford" To: Cc: Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 6:33 PM Subject: Re: Freeside > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message