Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 19:47:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole Harrington <freelist@webweaver.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: opsys@mail.webspan.net, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packet Engines - FreeBSD Message-ID: <XFMail.980626194734.freelist@webweaver.net> In-Reply-To: <199806270331.UAA18358@usr04.primenet.com>
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On 27-Jun-98 Terry Lambert wisely wrote:
>> > It says "ISPCHANNEL DESIGN".
>> >
>> Yes, for www.ispchannel.com Cable modems!
>
> Hey! So when are you going to be selling in Foster City, CA?
>
Dunno.. I'm not that involved in that end... I belive the web page gives some i
nfo about it. However if you are a TCI customer you are in @home territory :<
>> At least I belive that is what you are saying must be needed to prevent
>> the problems you describe. I could be Way Off.. Please let me know if I
>> am. ( It's late Friday.. hello hello.. come in Brain...)
> If by "B", you mean they are permanently assigned one of the IP
> addresses from your allocated block (ie: they have a static IP), then
> it's not a problem.
Yes and No. The 2 way systems get a perminant IP. The dial back systems do not.
However we will most likely Not be allowing people to run servers or domains via
thier cable modem. It is still up in the air however. Altho, any user who has a
domain they want to use They MUST have a fixed IP.
> much cutting themselves out of the small business (ie: transiently
> connected business) market when the business outgrows 3 or 5 or
> however many POP3 maildrops and needs their own server. Or if they
> don't outgrow it, but they don't want their company mail going out
> to where they don't control before it comes back. DDNS buys you
> a large part of your address block back.
>
Yes, we really just stay away from "transiently connected business" We have eno
ugh perm connect customers now to deal with.
>
>> Also, I have designed a Mailserver to run at MX35 to act as a FAILover
>> with a large que storage if I need to take take the mail system offline
>> or the RAID system dies somehow or things just get too busy. It also
>> acts as the MX35 for clients who want to run mail at their site.
>
> If you get paranoid, you may want to locate a secondary DNS and
> failover server elsewhere, in case of net death. That won't be
> a problem until you have 30,000 customers (everyone should have such
> problems 8-)).
>
Yes I would like too. Altho we will have 2 T3's soon. One via MCI and the other
via Sprint.
>
>> Just to mention, I am using Qmail with Maildir delivery to overcome the
>> file locking problems of sendmail across an NFS link.
>
> This is really more of a problem with the Mlocal mailer more than
> anything else, I think. Sendmail doesn't do final delivery itself.
> You could hack /usr/libexec/mail.local to use lock files rather
> easily. 8-).
>
Yes, however the idea of having 100K+ messages being appended to a usenames fil
e just doesn't seem appealing. It is faster to just drop a file into a directory
.
>
>> The setup is ALL FreeBSD except for the DHCP servers (If only FreeBSD
>> could run Sun/Solaris Binaries) and of course the Netapp devices. Also
>> the drawing needs to be updated since my budget got cut and I needed to
>> scale back a bit on the news system and virtual and ~ customers will
>> stay on the same servers.
>
> What's wrong with the ISC DHCP on FreeBSD, that you need Sun/Solaris
> binaries?
There are only 2 DHCP companies (That I know of) that adhere to the MCNS Cable
modem standards. The one I want to switch too (since the one my boss chose to
run on a NT machine keeps dying.. imagine that :> ) only come in HP UNIX and su
n/solaris.
Belive me.. If I could I would. But we are looking at having 100K+ users by nex
t year with abt 100 cable sites banging away on the DHCP servers. I need somethi
ng known to work for this application.
Nicole
nicole@webweaver.net - http://www.webweaver.net/
webmistress@dangermouse.org - http://www.dangermouse.org/
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