Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 12:44:37 -0500 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> To: martes.wigglesworth@earthlink.net Cc: jonathan michaels <jlm@caamora.com.au> Subject: Re: Viable FreeBSD Network Access Server projects...? Message-ID: <16865.28037.8845.499934@canoe.dclg.ca> In-Reply-To: <1105261972.679.22.camel@Mobile1.276NET> References: <1105229509.683.433.camel@Mobile1.276NET> <20050109120648.14914@caamora.com.au> <1105261972.679.22.camel@Mobile1.276NET>
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Actually, if I were building the giant dial-up server nowdays, I'd seriously consider two things. 1st, if I was stuck with a hardware design, USB seems to be the way to go. USB1.1 is 12 megabit ... which would easily support over 100 modems. Depends on buffering and efficiency, I suppose. But really, if you were looking at more than about 20 modems, it might be cheaper to licence some one's winmodem implementation and hire a developer to make the winmodem go against either a PRI or a VOIP connection. Modern processors should be able to handle 20 to 50 modems if well programmed. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================
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