From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 12 7:57:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pi.yip.org (yip.org [199.45.111.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5505937BDB0 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 07:57:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Received: from localhost (melange@localhost) by pi.yip.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA16613; Fri, 12 May 2000 10:57:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 10:57:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob K X-Sender: melange@localhost To: Shawn Barnhart Cc: 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 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 "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