From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 15 6:48:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ccsales.com (ccsales.com [216.0.22.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A361556D for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 06:48:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randyk@ccsales.com) Received: from rknt2 (joe.hiper.net [206.111.55.146]) by ccsales.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id GAA07173; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 06:48:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990715064749.00bd8750@ccsales.com> X-Sender: randyk@ccsales.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 06:47:49 -0700 To: Ronald Wiplinger From: "Randy A. Katz" Subject: Re: Any experience with T3/HSSI cards and FreeBSD? Cc: Dennis , isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <378D793A.58EDD1D5@trace.net.tw> References: <199907142226.SAA06294@etinc.com> <199907141822.OAA11834@yaga.razorfish.com> <199907142226.SAA06294@etinc.com> <3.0.5.32.19990714222921.0573f320@ccsales.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ronald, Question, how are you able to do bandwidth limiting on your Cisco gear? At 02:01 PM 7/15/99 +0800, Ronald Wiplinger wrote: >I could not resist, but your words makes me laugh. Maybe the otherway round would >happen, Dennis would finally find a place at the xxxxx, where he cannot= blend >customers anymore, and better educated sales engineer would take over. >Anyway I use his cards only for activating the bandwidth filter anymore, and even >that one is wrong as already mentioned several times. Unfortunatly I cannot sell >his card, but if you Randy are so happy with it, would you mind to buy the three >cards I have from Etinc? It comes of course as from the factory - without= any >support, no manual (but I give you the empty manual disk as well), screws of the >cable are not to use, ... >but it looks perfect. For the bandwidth manager you just need to divide the >figures by two than it is correct too, .... but hey therefore it is cheap, .... > >Counting the effort to get the thing running and the downtime I had with it, it is >the expensivest router I ever bought, ... >I am now back at Cisco 3640s. More expenses front up, but working without any >downtime within minutes!!! The longest time you spend with the 3640 is to unwrapp >it! > > >"Randy A. Katz" wrote: > >> Cool! >> >> I guess Dennis is granted another stab at life since this story cannot >> possibly convince a (flea?). I use Dennis's products, have received >> excellent support from Dennis himself, and have no financial gain by= saying >> so...actually I hope that none of you use his products because once the= big >> guys find out how good his HSSI cards are (and software) then there will= be >> no more Dennis (have a good vacation Dennis), no more ETInc...only a big >> marketing push and some back office engineers which are served iced >> cappucino as they disect and embelish Dennis stuff! >> >> At 07:45 PM 7/14/99 -0400, Dennis wrote: >> >At 05:14 PM 7/14/99 -0700, you wrote: >> >>At 5:20 PM -0400 7/14/99, Dennis was again pimping his product: >> >>>Dont pay too much attention to our list prices. The gov't is buying them at >> >> >> >>Don't pay too much attention to Dennis period. Browse through >> >>archives of inet-access and you'll see what I mean. The other vendors >> >>deserve more of your attention. >> >> >> >>Some great "Dennisisms": >> >> >> >> - All ISPs are in the business of pirating software >> >> >> >> - No ISPs are potential customers of his >> >> >> >> - Any ISP that blocks spam should be sued and possibly thrown in the >> >slammer >> >> >> >> - Anyone that is too stupid to figure out his products on their own with >> >> no support, doesn't qualify to buy them >> >> >> >> >> >>No, I'm not making these up. Yes, his product seems attractive, but >> >>for me, his general demeanor online would scare me away. >> > >> >LOL. You're a real quality guy Jonny boy. A bit of embellishment, dont= ya >> >think? >> > >> >I dont think people on this list are dumb enough to believe that because we >> >dont supply source that I think ISPs are pirates, or because I believe that >> >ISPs that block mail indescriminately are in the wrong that they should= be >> >thrown in the slammer, or that I dont think that ISPs are my customer= base >> >(MOST of my customers are ISPs...I just said that the inet-access is a list >> >for ciscoheads and are not likely to buy anything from me). If you're going >> >to exaggerate so substantially at least try to make it believable for >> >pete's sake! >> > >> >Dennis >> >Emerging Technologies, Inc. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >http://www.etinc.com >> >ISA and PCI T1/T3/V35/HSSI Cards for FreeBSD and LINUX >> >HSSI/T3 UNIX-based Routers >> >Bandwidth Manager >> > >> > >> > >> >http://www.etinc.com/bwmgr.htm >> > >> > >> >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message >> > >> > >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > >-- >Ronald Wiplinger (=C3Q=A4=AF=AF=C7) http://www.trace.net.tw >phone number =3D e-mail: >e-mail: 0935869459@phonebook.com.tw or ronald@trace.net.tw > > >Attachment Converted: "d:\eudorapgp\attach\ronald.vcf" > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message