From owner-freebsd-isp Thu May 25 9: 2:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22C3837C727 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 09:02:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id UAA23374; Thu, 25 May 2000 20:03:45 +0200 Message-ID: <392D4E6B.FAEC9870@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 18:01:47 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Heckaman Cc: Troy Settle , lures@mozcom.com, FreeBSD-ISP Subject: Re: Need advice on software for ISP startup using FreeBDS 4.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matt Heckaman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 24 May 2000, Troy Settle wrote: > [...] > : You sure you want UUNut? For a startup, I would reccomend you go with a > : regional ISP that has several transit providers. This gives you the > : advantages of multi-homing without the cost, and a smaller organization to > : deal with on support issues, etc.. > > I'm not sure on how it is in the US, but here in Canada UUnet, at least > from my expierence, is quite a nice operation. We've got a single T1 to > UUnet Canada in Montreal. Their service is complete and fairly quick, I > never get put on hold for too long, and they even filter DoS attacks > within a nice 10-15 minute amount of time. Maybe it's different in the US, > who knows, but over here UUnet is a recommend choice from me :) I second this opinion: If you got servers and leased lines across country borders, UUNet is a top quality provider. Having one shop to blame when something does not work instead of two local line providers along with two different hosting providers is worth UUnuts price tag. -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message