From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 15 06:42:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA27201 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 06:42:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mexcom.net (mail.mexcom.net [206.103.64.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA27193 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 06:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sunix (eculp@sunix.mexcom.net [206.103.64.3]) by mail.mexcom.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA24964; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 08:42:07 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <33F45CA4.678DB212@mexcom.net> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 08:41:56 -0500 From: Edwin Culp Organization: Mexico Communicates, S.C. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.14 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Shankland CC: bradley@dunn.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi-homed - Load Balancing - No Single Point of Failure References: <199708150515.WAA20995@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jim Shankland wrote: > > Gee: real content; thanks :-). > > I'm shocked at this business of paying through the nose for gated > (turn your back for a few years, and just look what happens). > Seems like it ought to be possible to start with the free version, > and have interested parties improve it for free, kind of like BIND. > Hell, I've even heard that there are whole free operating systems out > there, some of them rumored to be pretty good :-). > > I'm not volunteering (yet), but it's certainly food for thought. > > Jim Shankland > Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc. >From the looks of this thread, their seems to be a L O T of interest. It might be interesting to through this out on the merit list gated-people@merit.edu, I think. There just might be some folks over there who agree. What do you think? ed