Date: 08 Feb 1999 14:05:03 -0500 From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com> To: "Griffin, Clarence" <Clarence_Griffin@ed.gov> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'fug-washdc@sytex.net'" <fug-washdc@sytex.net>, "'isp-tech@isp-tech.com'" <isp-tech@isp-tech.com>, "'Bluebeard@Bluebeard.net'" <Bluebeard@Bluebeard.net> Subject: Re: BSD friendly ISPs? Message-ID: <86iudc7m3k.fsf@samizdat.uucom.com> In-Reply-To: "Griffin, Clarence"'s message of Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:46:46 -0500 References: <416C351C579FD211B2B200062B001FF03AF422@wdcfb6exc01.ed.gov>
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"Griffin, Clarence" <Clarence_Griffin@ed.gov> writes: > Can anyone suggest an ISP serving the 703 area code, who is not 'chilled to > the bone' and the thought of helping someone who is not a Microsoft devote > to access the Internet? I help support nova.org/fcac.org, a non-profit ISP in 703 (Merrifield). All the techs are unpaid volunteer Unix weenies so we can help with BSD dialin configs if you need. In fact, we prefer "your type" :-) Price is $10/month plus $15 coop membership or something, unmetered time. We can also do DNS if you've got a domain, and you get a shell on one of our Sun/FreeBSD/Linux boxes with 20M disk if you want. We also have a handful of dedicated 24x7 subnet users if that's of interest, but it of course costs more -- but not nearly so much as Erols :-) Because we're all volunteer-based, there isn't quite the professionalism that you might want to expect from a "real" ISP :-) There are ocassionally short outages when we have had to upgrade some piece of hardware cuz we're don't have a redundant HW architecture, but I find the small size makes things more responsive than with a larger ISP. I have been happy using (and supporting) them for the past two years. If you're a Unix geek and have any interest in providing your expertise to any ISP-like problems, I'm sure we could use you. > I'm looking for a ppp connection that, using FreeBSD 2.2.8, (and or > sometimes R.H. Linux, depending on my mood) and I want to be able to WWW, > FTP, and Telnet. Have several e-mail accounts now, so that is not an > priority. Myself and at least one of the other Nova nerds are FreeBSD bigots so that's no problem. Nova does multiple email accounts per dialin account. If you want I can ship you the configs I've used for ppp, pppd, and mpd, under FreeBSD 2.2.7. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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