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Date:      Thu, 25 May 2000 10:28:50 +0100
From:      Tim Priebe <tim@polytechnic.edu.na>
To:        Greg Skouby <gskouby@ns0.sitesnow.com>
Cc:        lures@mozcom.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Need advice on software for ISP startup using FreeBDS 4.0
Message-ID:  <392CF252.2AF4E9F1@polytechnic.edu.na>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005241440550.4670-100000@ns0.sitesnow.com>

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Greg Skouby wrote:

> 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 5300 has a number of advantages over the 3640, and it can do what you are
recommending the 3640 for.

> > 3. No PAP or CHAP Authentication.
>
> What kind of authentication are you going to use then? Are you just going
> to use the user list on the access server? I would strongly suggest using
> either PAP or CHAP coupled with RADIUS auth. Both of them have their
> advantages and disadvantages.

The Cisco can be configured to let the dialup connection choose, and I
rembember from when Windows95 came out that it insisted that it authenticate
with pap.  You want to make it as easy a possible for your clients, or they
will go elsewhere.


> > 1. Will the Vinum Volume Manager provide any benefit to me in
> > my current config?
>
> Not really. You need drives that have the same physical geometry to use
> Vinum, or partitions set to the same size.You can concatenate your IDE
> drives or mirror them but it sounds like you want to use one for backup
> and use the other one for the news feed.

I would agree with the comments elsewhere, save some money on the CPU, and
spend it on extra drives, then you can mirror.

> > 6. Still looking for SMTP and POP3 software. If it's in the ports
> > collection I didn't see it. Where can I find it?
>
> For pop3 and IMAP you can go with cyrus or uwash IMAP.

From all of the security comments on uwash IMAP of late, it is probably a bad
idea.
IMAP is not generally a good idea for an ISP in my opinion, it adds
unnessasary resource requirements. I use cucipop, it like the others
mentioned here are in the ports under mail.

Tim.



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