Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 13:27:03 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> To: John Anderson <johna@mail.bbcc.ctc.edu> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Would like your opinion Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960107132337.9865G-100000@okjunc.junction.net> In-Reply-To: <19960105095216.0a255de9.in@mail.bbcc.ctc.edu>
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On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, John Anderson wrote: > I'm new to this list and new to FreeBSD. Some friends and I are > getting ready to start providing internet service to our community > and would like any suggestions you may have. > We figure on starting small and growing (hopefully). 56k line to > start, with 5 lines coming in. > FreeBSD running on a: > Pentium 100 > 16 meg ram > 1 gig scsi hard drive > 4X CD rom drive. Seems reasonable. Of course you will not be running a news server on 1 gig, but that is just as well considering you have only a 56K line. Arrange for newsreading permissions at your provider or with some other ISP who is close to you on the network (check it with traceroute). The CD-ROM choice seems strange. If you want to load shareware CD-ROM's to get people to do file transfers locally instead of over the 56K (a good idea) then you should get 1x CD-ROM's and buy several. As soon as you can (maybe right now) get a tape backup unit. Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-542-4130 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com
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