From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 10 15:10:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA10566 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 15:10:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from gateway.net.hk (john@gateway.hk.linkage.net [202.76.7.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA10531 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 15:09:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from john@localhost) by gateway.net.hk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id HAA08055; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 07:02:25 +0800 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 07:02:24 +0800 (HKT) From: John Beukema To: John Anderson cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opinion In-Reply-To: <199601092029.MAA02342@library.bbcc.ctc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk You might consider a digiboard 16 card. This can run in the main server until you need more power, then add extensions (up to 64 ports) and/or move to a separate machine. I believe it is a lot less than a portmaster etc. In a separate machine, you can do all authorization and accounting on the login machine then rlogin to the other machine(s). jbeukema On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, John Anderson wrote: > Hi, > I just wanted to thank all of you for the advice > and suggestions. They were very helpful. > We decided that what we have will work for awhile > until we see how many people we get signed up. > If it looks like it's going to go pretty well > then we will start buying other computers for > > web servers and news servers. We did decide > to up our RAM to 24 megs. > > We still haven't quite decided how we're > going to hook our modems up yet. > It has been suggested to me that hooking up > another computer loaded with the minimum Freebsd > and a network card and fill the thing with modems. > > Does this sound feesable or just silly? > > Thank you once again for all your help. > > John Anderson > > johna@mail.bbcc.ctc.edu > john@library.bbcc.ctc.edu >