Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 23:46:47 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@1nova.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD issues at iServer!!! Message-ID: <002201c0a3b6$199144e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103012338170.44065-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Rick Hamell [mailto:hamellr@1nova.com] >Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 11:40 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: FreeBSD issues at iServer!!! > > > >> It never ceases to amaze me how people will put up with >> out and out service outages that last for _days_ from some >> ISP's. It's like, we only haven't been building redundant >> WAN networks FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS!! Pick up the clue >> phone, sheesh!!! > > Tell me about it... what's worse is that some of these ISP's >expect you to take it! Geesh... if I'm down for more then 5 minutes, I'm >shopping for a new ISP.... :) > Better make that 15 minutes, 5 minutes is typically under the BGP convergence timeframe for a loss of a feed... ;-) Seriously, though, you can get that kind of uptime if you need it, but what you have to do is run either frame or point-to-point, and have a backup ISDN dialup port in the router. Oh, and you also need to have multiple telco's coming into the building as well, one that carries your leased circuit and the other that carries your ISDN circuit. DSL is probably not going to cut it in this scene. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > Rick > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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