From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 28 12:21:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA28925 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 12:21:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA28920 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 12:21:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id VAA00796; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 21:15:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from knobel.gun.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knobel.gun.de (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA00484; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 20:10:24 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 20:10:23 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm To: dennis cc: hm@altona.hamburg.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards In-Reply-To: <199601271740.MAA07892@etinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 27 Jan 1996, dennis wrote: > This scenario is frightening to me....although I think that you've answered my > question......Its the final straw I think in making FreeBSD > marketable...obviously > the AST solution is unacceptable for a real ISP....I wonder why the cyclades > board > needs mgetty.....whats the major diff between getty and mgetty? Dennis, a real ISP buys a fine Terminal Server to handle several Modem lines. Something like a Livingston Portmaster isn't too expensive for a real ISP. Many Modem lines produce many Interrupts. Outsource this job to another piece of hardware as an Terminal server. Let FreeBSD be a good server machine for www an such. -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de - \/ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz apsfilter - magic print filter 4lpd >>> knobel is powered by FreeBSD <<<