From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jun 29 19:44:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA04043 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 19:17:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA03980 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 19:15:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoo.toronto.edu (zoo.toronto.edu [128.100.72.1]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id MAA18088 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 12:11:05 -0700 Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 14:38:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Henry Spencer Subject: Re: muliport boards - building a PPP dialup server To: "Jacob M. Parnas" cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com In-Reply-To: <199606290603.CAA06149@jparnas.cybercom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Also, why add an ethernet to the home system, when really you usually just > want a point to point connection from your house to the ISP, a route from > your home computer to the ISP and a route from the ISP to any default request, > and don't have any need for a local LAN? Why *not* add an Ethernet to the home system? It's a cheap and simple way to get an efficient high-speed connection into your machine. The key is to stop thinking of Ethernet as an expensive LAN, and start thinking of it as a fast alternative to RS232. A 10BaseT Ethernet card and a crossover cable is a cheap and easy way to connect *even* *just* *one* high-speed device to your PC. Would you add a serial port for such a purpose? If not, then why not add an Ethernet port instead? It's a lot better and not much more expensive. Henry Spencer henry@zoo.toronto.edu