From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Dec 9 21:16:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E224C37B405 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 21:16:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.com ([24.1.247.6]) by femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011210051646.GHLZ10647.femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 21:16:46 -0800 Message-ID: <3C14448C.29CB31FC@home.com> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 22:13:48 -0700 From: Joel Mc Graw X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave VanAuken Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as multiple line RAS References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have a nice rackmount running FreeBSD with a cyclades multiport serial card connected to three modems. Works fine, not a single problem. Here's a question for you: how can I get an AS400 to dial into my RAS solution (have had the need several times)... Dave VanAuken wrote: > > Anyone have first hand experience, pitfalls, or comments regarding using a > freebsd box as a simple RAS for multiple remote dialin lines. > > Have a client that needs to provide access to a number of stores, maximum of 8 > at a time. Currently has a two ports available on an NT server, and a number on > an AS400 for inventory management. > > Solution would be throw a coule of cheap FreeBSD boxes in there with 2+ modems > each. What isthe maximum number that you could reasonably pack into a single > FreeBSD box without running into resource problems? > > Easy solution would be to install a Cisco 2509 or something, but that may be > overkill. Thoughts? > > Dave > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message