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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.corpcomm.net!news3.net99.net!news.cais.net!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISP Date: 17 Oct 1995 17:25:26 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 33 Message-ID: <460ou6$7il@helena.MT.net> References: <45ujr7$fis@ra.isisnet.com> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <45ujr7$fis@ra.isisnet.com>, Charles Tassell <ctassell@isn.net> wrote: > I'm working for a company that is about to set up an Internet Service >Provider in a relatively small market (we will probably have around 100 users >at the start) What I am wondering is whether or not FreeBSD is stable and >supported enough to run as the router for a mainly PPP connections. Sure, why not? > Any comments? I know wuarchive runs off of a Pentium with FreeBSD but it's >just an FTP server, isn't it? FWIW, SRI-Montana is in the process of turing a 486/66 box into our firewall, router, terminal server, and DNS box. We'll be running 4 external modems off a 4-port serial card w/16550 UART for our outgoing and incoming PPP connections. I don't suspect we'll have any problems with it other than the time to set it up and get the firewall stuff working. By using FreeBSD, we're replacing a couple Sparcs which really don't do serial I/O very well, and we hope to increase the uptimes by sticking a cheap UPS on the PC. SRI-Montana depends on our connection being up 24 hrs/day 365 days/yr, and although we aren't an ISP we *depend* on FreeBSD, and consider using FreeBSD a worthwhile risk. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. Wanna go fly fishing? I don't charge or home #: (406) 443-7063 | feed you, but I do know the area pretty well.