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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