Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 10:57:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob K <melange@yip.org> To: Shawn Barnhart <swb@grasslake.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Server Farms? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005121056040.16302-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005121039310.9869-100000@search.sparks.net>
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On Fri, 12 May 2000, David Miller wrote: > 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. Another solution that works fairly well that you may have lying around idle are Cisco 2511's. -- Bob <melange@yip.org> "Reality is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes" - My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult sample To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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