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Date:      Sat, 08 Jan 2005 15:30:15 -0600
From:      Bob Martin <bob@buckhorn.net>
To:        freebsd-isp list <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Viable Freebsd Network Access Server projects....?
Message-ID:  <41E050E7.6040309@buckhorn.net>
In-Reply-To: <1105219509.683.382.camel@Mobile1.276NET>
References:  <1105216646.683.377.camel@Mobile1.276NET> <41E04B91.6000203@centtech.com> <1105219509.683.382.camel@Mobile1.276NET>

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Get an old USR Total Control 1000, with an NT Edge Server. Load FreeBSD 
on the edge server. Every thing you ever wanted or needed to do dial-up 
in a 5U box.

Bob

Martes Wigglesworth wrote:
> 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.  


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