Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 14:51:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Skouby <gskouby@ns0.sitesnow.com> To: lures@mozcom.com Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need advice on software for ISP startup using FreeBDS 4.0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005241440550.4670-100000@ns0.sitesnow.com> In-Reply-To: <240500145.41002@207.206.68.172>
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Hello, These are just comments from personal experience so others can openly mock me or set forth their opinions. > > 1. Dial in service up to 56K, no ISDN or DSL/ADSL or domain hosting. Looks like you are planning on using the Cisco 5300 for this. If you didn't already purchase the equipment then I would look into getting a Cisco 3640. These are fresh off the Cisco product line and can do a lot of things. Including handling your dialin and access to your UUnet connection. Why aren't you going to sell ISDN? If you have the PRIs coming in you might as well offer ISDN too. You don't have to have any additional equipment. > 3. No PAP or CHAP Authentication. What kind of authentication are you going to use then? Are you just going to use the user list on the access server? I would strongly suggest using either PAP or CHAP coupled with RADIUS auth. Both of them have their advantages and disadvantages. > 4. Would like to use Kernel PPP mode instead of User PPP mode. What are you doing PPP for on the FreeBSD box? > 1. Will the Vinum Volume Manager provide any benefit to me in > my current config? Not really. You need drives that have the same physical geometry to use Vinum, or partitions set to the same size.You can concatenate your IDE drives or mirror them but it sounds like you want to use one for backup and use the other one for the news feed. > 2. Do I have to use quota to limit disk space for web page subscribers > or can it limit space by login script? I would use quote. > 3. Do I need Radius- Remote authentication server because I'm > using an CISCO AS5301-CH terminal server? Is /usr/ports/net/radius YOu can use the user table on the cisco if you want but that is a terrible way to do auth IMHO. I would use RADIUS. http://www.freeradius.org > 4. For Dial in users to use Dynamic addressing, I believe I need > DHCP. The ports collection has 2 versions, wide-DHCP and ISC-DHCP2. I would use the access server to dole out IPs. That is not too hard to setup. > 5. For a web server Apache looks like the one, but the port collection > has 7 versions of Apache13, which one do you use?. 1.3.12., although 2.0 is in its 3rd alpha stage > 6. Still looking for SMTP and POP3 software. If it's in the ports > collection I didn't see it. Where can I find it? For pop3 and IMAP you can go with cyrus or uwash IMAP. You can use qmail, exim, sendmail and some others for smtp. They each have their advantages. I would strongly reconsider serving news. news is an ugly, hairy beast that chews up a lot of disk space and resources. If you definately want to give your customers news then outsource it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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