Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 15:08:03 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: sreid@edmbbs.iceonline.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware for ISP / WWW server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951209150248.23784A-100000@sasami> In-Reply-To: <199512091758.LAA22167@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Joe Greco wrote: > > to modify to suit your needs) > Ewww, no way. :) > A Livingston Portmaster has some pretty gnarly drawbacks: > > 1) has problems with subnets True. OSPF Real Soon Now(tm). (And I'm not routing networks with it. yet)B > 2) requires you to waste IP addresses due to the way the thing reserves > addresses for dropped connectionso Not if you modify radius to assign the SAME IP for each port. (S1 has .1, S2 has .2 etc...)B > 3) in the case of dropped connections totally bungles the way its handled I don't understand this. > 4) isn't really all that flexible Yes, its rather stupid. (This is good though.) > 5) etc (my mind can't think this morning) Busted! > I deal with sites that use FreeBSD as terminal servers and sites that use > Portmasters as terminal servers. Invariably the sites with Portmasters have > all sorts of bizarro hacks in place to try to get around various problems > and limitations that these stupid devices seem to cause and/or impose. Well there is that. > If you want a "real" terminal server, buy an Annex. Oh. And get a non rs232 compliant serial port? :) (I didn't even say this.) > If you want a more flexible solution than either of these two, go get a > dedicated FreeBSD box. With the price of a 486DX4/120 motherboard being > around $200, 16MB of RAM for about $500, and a 16 port BocaBoard for about > $250, you can make a really reasonable terminal server quite easily. True, but the Portmaster just sits and works. My problem right now is crappy modems. I'm going to fix that pretty soon. > I prefer the FreeBSD solution because it plays seamlessly with the rest of > my operations, I always have spare parts around in case of emergencies, I > like being able to do IP firewalling and arbitrary routing without > headaches, and all the other nifty stuff FreeBSD allows you to do.. True. A Unix based TS box has its advantages. I just don't want to have to hack that much to get it integrated with my setup. I'm having enough trouble making myself write a detail file processor. :) Maybe when I have slept more. | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|
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