From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Dec 9 13:45:00 1995 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA16044 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 13:45:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [205.218.122.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA16034 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 13:44:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA26229; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 15:43:53 -0600 Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 15:43:53 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" X-Sender: winter@sasami To: Joe Greco cc: tom@uniserve.com, sreid@edmbbs.iceonline.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware for ISP / WWW server In-Reply-To: <199512092135.PAA22574@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Joe Greco wrote: > > Thats a RIP issue more than a Portmaster issue. Its not their fault they > > use RIP. :) > So whose fault is it? :-) :-) No, its their fault for not using something a little less primative. But they are working on it... > Oh, the pain. :-/ Basically I've been on the "other side of the glass" a > lot of times as I have seen a lot of people who are exasperated with (X, Y, > Z, combination of, etc.) about the Portmasters. That is not to say that > they do not fill their intended purpose, but they do seem to me to be the > VW Bug of terminal servers (everybody has 'em, nobody likes 'em, everybody > has to open the trunk and tinker every once in a while in order to work > around quirks). Oh come on. It can't get any worse. I'me working too long for too little and one itty bitty terminal server to tweak isn't too much to ask now is it? :) > I keep thinking I should do that as well. What I use here in-house is > specialized and requires some other services that exist here in-house. It > would be cool to see a more generalized package... I think I talked with a friend about doing this a while ago. > to some people, but I prefer real world, cold, cruel, useful, relevant, > hard data when doing product evaluations... Yea, but you need fluff and nice glossy colored pictures of Black and Purple boxes to impress your boss with. :) > And I'm hardly convinced that FreeBSD is NOT capable of the same feat. :-) I didn't suggest otherwise. | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|