From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 8 21:24:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85B8016A4CE for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:24:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FB9A43D1D for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:24:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martes.wigglesworth@earthlink.net) Received: from [83.170.20.46] (helo=[192.168.1.55]) (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CnO4c-0003Zx-Di; Sat, 08 Jan 2005 16:24:39 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=simple; s=test1; d=earthlink.net; h=Subject:From:Reply-To:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Organization:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Date:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=YBrfC3cn96x8+HEajSFXCxZ0Kf8PxGoVUIwmi/get2c9E3/2dnkFroF7EV806Byr; From: Martes Wigglesworth To: Eric Anderson In-Reply-To: <41E04B91.6000203@centtech.com> References: <1105216646.683.377.camel@Mobile1.276NET> <41E04B91.6000203@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Wiggtekmicro Corporation Message-Id: <1105219509.683.382.camel@Mobile1.276NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 00:25:09 +0300 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: 532caf459ba90ce6996df0496707a79d9bea09fe345ed53d9ef193a6bfc3dd48a4c8e5b3ffe548f6f2ef98bd81badacd795b3f24a9f74b7f350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 83.170.20.46 cc: freebsd-isp list Subject: Re: Viable Freebsd Network Access Server projects....? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: martes.wigglesworth@earthlink.net List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:24:40 -0000 The "pasive backplane" setup, is just a dummy board, that has nothing but system buses, ISA, PCI, or combination of the two, with a pci slot taken up by another PCI board that holds the processor. Nothing special, just a more industrial/specialized way of using multiple Interface cards, on a machine that does not need any other overhead. I am trying to build something for a production ISP environment, so I guess scalability is a necessity. In such a setup, if it is doable, the only thing would be finding Multi-modem cards that are hardware-based, or at least have drivers for Unix/Linux. -- Respectfully, M.G.W. System: PCChips K7SOM MB AMD K7 Pro 1800 256MB RAM 40GB HD 10/100 NIC FreeBSD-5.2.1-RELEASE