Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 03:12:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some advice needed. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970414030635.27997U-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM> In-Reply-To: <19970413000457.62888@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > Hmm, will a K5 run as well as a P5 though? Since it might be > > faster but what about compatibility issues? As for the ethernet card, > > well... as I said I haven't any personal experience... I think I heard > that it works perfectly fine... Hmm, besides not being an Intel, what is the main differences between the AMD and the Intel? > > wouldn't a 100Mbps PCI be better? But is 8 megs really enough for a > > sure... but it will cost around $70-$80... also... do you need 100mbps? and > have the hub? :) Well, 100Mbps might be a good idea if you had other machines locally hooked up to it. > > terminal server? Now how much does the multiport cards cost? > > you'll probably want to run with 16megs though... but most of my memory > is taken up by gated... you also have to realize that when running.. most of > the pages for the executable will be shared... so you shouldn't have to have > more than a couple 100k per port... right now my terminal server has 1meg > free and it's serving four port... (and it's running gated, plus a raw > getty for serial console logins)... Hmmm, I don't think 16 megs is enough these days for anything especially when it's doing something like this. > > This is only if I can figure out how to get gated working. =) > > heh... it's actually not THAT hard to get working once you do... just > browse the mailing list archives... I posted an example gated.conf file > a few weeks ago... I guess things are always hard until you do it a few times or even the first time. I saw your example gated.conf file but am still a bit confused on how to get it setted up correctly. > > I thought you had a T1 but 56k would cost $5k already? > > I could pull a T1 for 5k.. but I wouldn't have any money to pay for more > than the first month of server... which would be hard to start out with a > income of $1k+/month.. :) Hmmm, that is a good reason but wouldn't a 56k not have enough bandwidth for the modems? > > Hmmm, via microwave? Now that must cost them something to do that > > but isn't microwave slower than actual cable? > > from what I hear it doesn't have a higher latency... and actually if the > FCC would allow them they could easily run over 1.544mbit... the only real > cost is the FCC license to run it... plus in some ways it's more reliable > than cable as you don't have to worry about the cable being dug up.. :) > this is only some info that I remeber hearing from a short discussions about > alternate providers locally... What is the speed the microwave runs at? A T1 actually runs 1.536Mbps only. I just wished there was a way to hook up ethernet cable to the NSP as they are only 1.5 blocks away. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]
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