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On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Joe Greco wrote:
> >   None, that I've seen.  And I run quite a few sub-nets from various 
> > Portmasters.  In fact, my house is connected by one.
> Tried running one on a non-class-C subnet?

Thats a RIP issue more than a Portmaster issue.  Its not their fault they
use RIP.  :)

> Not a bug, a feature.  The Portmaster reportedly will try to "hold on" to a
> connection pending a reconnect, but on a busy dial in pool you need to
> reserve more like 40 addresses minimally.

Reportedly.  When I start having these problems I'm going to do my
own dynamic addressing through radius.  

> Guess it depends which Annex..

There are only about 4 zillion different models.

> And of course with FreeBSD you can go down to the corner store for spare
> parts, and you get the source.  What more could you ask for?

A boxed solution?  I don't know.  Maybe I will sit down and roll a FreeBSD
terminal server thingy.  Just to see if it would be worth using.  Maybe
when I get more sleep.

> I refuse to be a victim of Livingston propaganda  :-)

Strange.  I never talked to them.  What are they saying?


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