From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 17 20:09:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA21835 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 20:09:29 -0700 Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA21829 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 20:09:12 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id EAA02113 ; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 04:08:16 +0100 To: Wilson MacGyver cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new Linux for ISP... In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Oct 1995 22:36:42 EDT." <199510180236.WAA00198@donna.cylatech.com> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 04:08:12 +0100 Message-ID: <2111.813985692@palmer.demon.co.uk> From: Gary Palmer Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Wilson MacGyver stands accused of writing in message ID <199510180236.WAA00198@donna.cylatech.com>: >I just saw a book on using Linux for ISP yesterday... I wonder if this >will start making people using Linux for ISP... They already are... I met someone in Aberdeen (Scotland) who dialed into a local ISP as I watched. Then the Linux banner came up I nearly choked. When they commented they had a lot of reliability problems with their ISP, however, I had to smile :-) I felt like trying to find the ISP's NOC and wandering in with a FreeBSD CDROM to show them how to do it right. No offense to Linux, but either it was poorly setup or it couldn't handle what it was being asked to do. The login negotiation sequence fell over at least once whilst I was there. Gary