From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 8 21:29:58 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 E5BAD16A4CE for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:29:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from whitehall.lin-tech.net (whitehall.lin-tech.net [66.118.35.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD51A43D31 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:29:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bob@buckhorn.net) Received: from [209.169.75.165] (tardis.buckhorn.net [209.169.75.165]) by whitehall.lin-tech.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C86292501F for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:29:50 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41E050E7.6040309@buckhorn.net> Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 15:30:15 -0600 From: Bob Martin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041214 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp list References: <1105216646.683.377.camel@Mobile1.276NET> <41E04B91.6000203@centtech.com> <1105219509.683.382.camel@Mobile1.276NET> In-Reply-To: <1105219509.683.382.camel@Mobile1.276NET> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at spamcontrol Subject: Re: Viable Freebsd Network Access Server projects....? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:29:59 -0000 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.