From owner-freebsd-isp Sat May 26 20:17:21 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 001B937B423 for ; Sat, 26 May 2001 20:17:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@hei.net) Received: (qmail 24882 invoked from network); 27 May 2001 03:17:17 -0000 Received: from trout.hei.net (HELO trout) (209.222.163.131) by salmon.hei.net with SMTP; 27 May 2001 03:17:17 -0000 Message-ID: <001601c0e65c$14adfb60$83a3ded1@hei.net> From: "John Hengstler" To: Cc: References: <3B104586.A643F9A9@buckhorn.net> <005201c0e64d$0c068cc0$0bdea8c0@island.net.au> <3B1064B8.F702F5CD@buckhorn.net> Subject: Re: Freeside Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 20:21:12 -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 It does have its downsides namely the items you mentioned. I will be relooking at Freeside again, as most of our network uses Mysql as our backend. Optigold is NOT scalable in that fashion! John Hengstler HEI Communications ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Martin" To: Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 7:21 PM Subject: Re: Freeside > Hugh Blandford wrote: > > > > 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 > I cringe at the thought of it. It's awful. It won't scale, the database > is very easily corrupted, it lacks flexibility, and the support is > nearly useless. > > I'll spare the list my unsolicited testimonial and just say that > Platypus justifies the NT boxen on my network. > -- > 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