Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 03:14:07 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Lockdown of FreeBSD machine directly on Net Message-ID: <003f01c1690f$a5e41a20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <15339.46837.837301.883814@guru.mired.org>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Mike Meyer [mailto:mwm@mired.org] >Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 2:59 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: questions@freebsd.org >Subject: RE: Lockdown of FreeBSD machine directly on Net > > >Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> types: >> What always amazes me is the number of people in our town that are still >> staggering along with these small ISP's that have been losing money for >> years. Don't their S.O.'s get tired of supporting them?! > >Hey - that looks like a *question*! So I'll answer it. > >There are two industries that call their customers "users". Small >operators in both business buy the product in bulk for their own use, >then resell the excess to other users. Oh, we have a number of _those_ kinds of ISP's too - but those aren't the ones losing money that I wonder about. Those ones are generally doing OK. The ones I'm talking about are the people that have from 200-400 dialup users, actual offices (generally located in oldtown next to the adult bookstores, low-rent hotels, and such) and no network lines or modem banks of their own - they buy wholesale dialup ports and resell them somehow, authentication/billing/virtual webserving are often done on a single server at a colocate shelf at a more prosperous ISP. I've talked with a few of these folks and they are forever in danger of being cut off for non-payment of their bills. Yearly salaries for the one knowledgeable network admin holding the bandaid and ductape servers together are in the 20-30K range. RAID is nonexistent, IDE drives abound, downtime is frequent. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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