From owner-freebsd-isp Thu May 25 2:29: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.polytechnic.edu.na (mail.polytechnic.edu.na [196.31.225.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 929BF37B5F1 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 02:28:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@polytechnic.edu.na) Received: from [196.31.225.199] (helo=polytechnic.edu.na) by mail.polytechnic.edu.na with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #2) id 12uvq5-0007T0-00; Thu, 25 May 2000 09:30:09 -0200 Message-ID: <392CF252.2AF4E9F1@polytechnic.edu.na> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:28:50 +0100 From: Tim Priebe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Skouby Cc: lures@mozcom.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need advice on software for ISP startup using FreeBDS 4.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message