From owner-freebsd-isp Wed May 24 23: 9:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from troi.csw.net (troi.csw.net [209.136.192.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B4CC37B637 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 23:09:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lambert@cswnet.com) Received: from ssaos2 (ssaos2.csw.net [209.136.201.13]) by troi.csw.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA55036; Thu, 25 May 2000 01:09:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lambert@cswnet.com) Message-Id: <200005250609.BAA55036@troi.csw.net> From: lambert@cswnet.com Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 01:01:08 -0500 To: Greg Skouby , lures@mozcom.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Need advice on software for ISP startup using FreeBDS 4.0 X-Mailer: MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v2.10a c10 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In , on 05/24/2000 at 02:51 PM, Greg Skouby said: >Hello, >These are just comments from personal experience so others can openly >mock me or set forth their opinions. > >> >> 1. Dial in service up to 56K, no ISDN or DSL/ADSL or domain hosting. >Looks like you are planning on using the Cisco 5300 for this. If you >didn't already purchase the equipment then I would look into getting a >Cisco 3640. These are fresh off the Cisco product line and can do a lot >of things. Including handling your dialin and access to your UUnet >connection. Why aren't you going to sell ISDN? If you have the PRIs >coming in you might as well offer ISDN too. You don't have to have any >additional equipment. The 7 3640s we had for a few months cost us several customers. We managed to get Cisco to trade us for and equivalent number of ports in the 5300 line. I don't think they have the bugs worked out of the 3640s yet. The 5348 will also give him more room to expand in the future. With the Octal T1 card he can also get by without a CSU/DSU on his bandwidth T1 until he needs that last T1 slot for dial termination. >I would strongly reconsider serving news. news is an ugly, hairy beast >that chews up a lot of disk space and resources. If you definately want >to give your customers news then outsource it. I concurr. I have about 13,000 subs and recently outsourced it. It has saved us 3Mb of bandwidth and we have 35 simultaneous reader slots. So far our peak simultaneous reader count has been 16. We are paying in the neighborhood of $500. And I don't have to fight with INN anymore!! I also got back a lot of nice fast U2W drives and a big machine. -- Scott Lambert lambert@cswnet.com Systems and Security Administrator CSW Net, Inc. ================================================================ Written: Thursday, May 25, 2000 - 01:01 AM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message