From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Dec 9 13:10:38 1995 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA13647 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 13:10:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [205.218.122.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA13641 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 13:10:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA24250; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 15:10:47 -0600 Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 15:10:47 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" X-Sender: winter@sasami To: Tom Samplonius cc: Joe Greco , sreid@edmbbs.iceonline.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware for ISP / WWW server In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Tom Samplonius wrote: > On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Joe Greco wrote: > > 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. > The problem is, is that PC serial hardware will never give you > performance of a terminal server. Actually, I don't mind paying for a plug in solution that someone else gets to do tech support for. Livingston tech support is pretty damn good. I think that the cost/performance factor may be in favor of the FreeBSD box though. (Of course, I'm young and have much to learn so I could be wrong.) | 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?"|