Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 00:25:09 +0300 From: Martes Wigglesworth <martes.wigglesworth@earthlink.net> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: freebsd-isp list <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Viable Freebsd Network Access Server projects....? Message-ID: <1105219509.683.382.camel@Mobile1.276NET> In-Reply-To: <41E04B91.6000203@centtech.com> References: <1105216646.683.377.camel@Mobile1.276NET> <41E04B91.6000203@centtech.com>
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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
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