Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 07:51:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: jas@flyingfox.com (Jim Shankland) Cc: bradley@dunn.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi-homed - Load Balancing - No Single Point of Failure Message-ID: <199708151451.HAA19084@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199708150515.WAA20995@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> from Jim Shankland at "Aug 14, 97 10:15:52 pm"
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> 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. And these ``intereseted parties'' could even probably come up with an interface that was closer to IOS so that the Cisco kids could have a chance of actually helping someone trying to configure ``FreeGated''. For those out there who have an interest in seeing something like this happen please feel free to contact me via private email, if I see enough interest I'll toss a mailling list up and throw a T-1 connected system on the internet to host the developement efforts on, form the 501(c)3 corporation, etc. > 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. I've been chewing on that food for a few weeks.... it taste's right, Merit is reaming the ISP's IMHO, and now that I am an ISP I would like to see something done about it. > Jim Shankland > Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc. What time do you get into your office? I'd like to call and chat about a few things.... probably about time. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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