From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 15 07:51:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA00391 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 07:51:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA00386 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 07:51:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id HAA19084; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 07:51:14 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199708151451.HAA19084@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Multi-homed - Load Balancing - No Single Point of Failure In-Reply-To: <199708150515.WAA20995@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> from Jim Shankland at "Aug 14, 97 10:15:52 pm" To: jas@flyingfox.com (Jim Shankland) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 07:51:13 -0700 (PDT) Cc: bradley@dunn.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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