From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 12 7:46:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from search.sparks.net (search.sparks.net [208.5.188.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E27637B80B for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 07:46:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmiller@search.sparks.net) Received: by search.sparks.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id B7764DC01; Fri, 12 May 2000 10:41:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by search.sparks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB96EDC00; Fri, 12 May 2000 10:41:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 10:41:30 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: Shawn Barnhart , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Server Farms? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 May 2000, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2000, Shawn Barnhart wrote: > > >For the record, though, what *are* the "good" ones? I looked for the > >Equinox mentioned earlier on on Ebay and didn't find any. > > Generially anything which will provide you an IP layer is the best > option. Livingston Portmasters are what first come to mind. There are > other solutions provided by various companies including 3Com. Generally > those things get to be pretty expensive though. You might look for > completely serial layer solutions from companies like Stallion, > Lantronix, or even and old DEC box. You just have to dig to find this > stuff. Portmasters are rock solid stable and would do very nicely. There should be a ton of them available cheap from ISP's all over who have converted to digital access for 56K modems. Once you had to take PRI/CT1 in the portmasters were useless. Easy to configure too. --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message