From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jul 9 15:03:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA14931 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 15:03:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA14920 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 15:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA28649; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 16:03:02 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 16:03:02 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199707092203.QAA28649@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Gary D. Margiotta" Cc: Cliff Addy , Nate Williams , isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: T1 upgrade options? In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In Nate's position where he is in a small office and doesn't need the > added functions of the Cisco, it is a great idea for hime to build his > own. Right. What I have isn't for everyone, but for small offices/ISP's who don't have a lot of $$ to throw at dedicated hardware, the PC is a great solution. (Especially when 'routing packets' isn't enough to have a working network. > specialized box. Plus, our routers have been up for months without > rebooting...the PC Router won't stay up that long without something having > to be done on it (my opinion, please don't kill me for it...;) ) 1:37PM up 168 days, 2:07, 7 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.09 That was right after we installed a UPS after a storm knocked it out. If it wasn't for the power outage it'd been up for almost a year. > P.S. - How's the Cyclades doing Nate? ;) Working like a charm. The new guy likes his dedicated Internet connection. :) Nate