Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 20:18:53 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org> To: Jacob Suter <jsuter@intrastar.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, Allen Hyer <allenh@wtrt.net> Subject: Re: Multi port serial cards Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961226201229.313A-100000@hydrogen> In-Reply-To: <199612270240.UAA23732@intrastar.net>
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On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Jacob Suter wrote: [...] > something breaks on a unix box you have problems (say sendmail goes nuts > and eats the machine... sendmail, pppd, and anything else running is dead what?? running sendmail on a termserver?? > to the world). When you throw together the total cost of a machine to do > this job (AMD 5x86/133, 24 megs ram, 540 MB hard drive, Cyclades 32-Yep, > case, video card, network card, etc) to handle 30 ports, it just doesn't and just what do you need a video card and a hard drive for?? (ok I can understand a 40meg ide... but a 540???) right now I'm running a termserver that is netbooted and the whole system takes up a whole 7megs... which I plan on reducing soon by recompiling the binaries as one and static... [...] > But, If I was just now getting into the business, I wouldn't fool with the > analog modems anymore, get a PM-3, either lease or buy... They're cheap, > they support both ISDN and analog (if you use a PRI), and quite often the > line charges are cheaper.. hmm... sounds good... I'll have to check that out... ttyl... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)
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