Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 14:28:41 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Nicholas Merrill <nick@calyx.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WinNT to FreeBSD Message-ID: <765.872026121@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Aug 1997 16:09:29 EDT." <3.0.3.32.19970819160929.0375cc84@calyx.net>
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> Actually I heard it wasn't possible to track any information like that > with FreeBSD. That may be the one edge that NT has in this competition. <g> You heard wrong - it's possible, just not immediately trivial. 1. You could log connection times with ppp's logging facility (depending on how you've got dialins configured) or, if you're doing ppp from a PM or Ascend box, with radiusd. 2. Bytes downloaded can be handled with ipfw and its packet accounting features, among various other methods. Neither technique requires heaps of UNIX-guruhood but a good, complete knowledge of FreeBSD is something of a prerequisite to setting either of these systems. I'd also argue that anyone trying to run an ISP with FreeBSD (or NT, for that matter) without such local expertise is just living on borrowed time anyway. Jordan
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