Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 15:16:05 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>, sreid@edmbbs.iceonline.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware for ISP / WWW server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951209151146.23784D-100000@sasami> In-Reply-To: <199512092006.OAA22400@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Joe Greco wrote: > > None, that I've seen. And I run quite a few sub-nets from various > > Portmasters. In fact, my house is connected by one. > Tried running one on a non-class-C subnet? Thats a RIP issue more than a Portmaster issue. Its not their fault they use RIP. :) > Not a bug, a feature. The Portmaster reportedly will try to "hold on" to a > connection pending a reconnect, but on a busy dial in pool you need to > reserve more like 40 addresses minimally. Reportedly. When I start having these problems I'm going to do my own dynamic addressing through radius. > Guess it depends which Annex.. There are only about 4 zillion different models. > And of course with FreeBSD you can go down to the corner store for spare > parts, and you get the source. What more could you ask for? A boxed solution? I don't know. Maybe I will sit down and roll a FreeBSD terminal server thingy. Just to see if it would be worth using. Maybe when I get more sleep. > I refuse to be a victim of Livingston propaganda :-) Strange. I never talked to them. What are they saying? | 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?"|
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