Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 16:56:44 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD ISPs head-start! Message-ID: <32A4CC4C.167EB0E7@whistle.com>
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I've been getting a few questions from people about the FreeBSD based Interjet.. For those of you who don't know me, My name is julian Elischer and I have been involved in FreeBSD since it was 386BSD. I wrote the SCSI system and various other bits here and there.. Recently I've been here at Whistle Communications making a 'plug-and-play' internet gateway out of freebsd. See http://www.freebsd.com for more info.. The aim of this device is to allow small businesses to connect to the internet via their ISP (you) without having to hire a system administrator. We are looking for ISPs to work with in introducing this device and giving it a good shakedown. It lives at the custommer site and connects to the ISP using Dial-on-demand PPP (analog or ISDN) and acts as a mail host/server and host address translation gateway. If any of you are running ISP instalations and would like to participate and get your feedback into the product (before it becomes ubiquitous :) you should give us a call. for now it is just available in teh US but we will be looking for Overseas ISPs soon too. We are interested in ISPs with some FreeBSD experience as we think that they will be more helpful in our attempts to find all the last bugs in this device.. How we envision you using this: the real-estate company down the road has 5 people. They all have PCs or MACs. They wish to surf the web and have individual email accounts. They also wish to publish web pages about their properties for sale. you sell them an interjet (hey it grows on you) AND ALLOCATE THEM A SINGLE IP ADDRESS. Using the address translation software built in, all users can read email from the intejet (using netscape (included) and use file sharing to drag and drop web pages to the interjet's publishing space, which it automatically mirrors to your web-farm. they can also surf, with the dial-on-demand routing capability. end of story.. Sorry if this sounds a bit like a sales pitch, but we really are looking for savvy ISPs to start using this, and the freeBSD ISP list seems to me the ideal place for me to find you guys so that we get on with pushing freebsd out there into the real world. hopefully if we make a big enough market, we can start hosting other services from FreeBSD and create a market for FreeBSD native apps.. anyway give us a call if you are at all interested.. the guy doing ISP liason is Phil Alexander.. phil@whistle.com thanks for reading me this far! :) yours in FreeBSD!! julian (julian@freebsd.org)
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