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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!palmer.demon.co.uk!palmer.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISP Date: 19 Oct 1995 20:54:14 +0100 Organization: none Lines: 27 Message-ID: <466ad6$1a9@palmer.demon.co.uk> References: <45ujr7$fis@ra.isisnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc.my.org X-NNTP-Posting-Host: palmer.demon.co.uk 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. FreeBSD as a router in quite stable. 2 machines at Walnut Creek has been up for over 3 weeks (both are routers, although for ethernet. One is also a firewall). I would be surprised if using it as a PPP router introduced instabilities. I've never personally used FreeBSD as a PPP server, but I have seen e-mail on the lists from people who have, and there comments were mostly positive from what I remember. > Any comments? I know wuarchive runs off of a Pentium with FreeBSD but it's >just an FTP server, isn't it? You, of course, mean wCarchive... (Walnut Creek archive)... Yes, it's a Pentium running FreeBSD. And yes, ftp server puts different strains on the kernel than PPP servers, but I don't think you'll have a problem. (it's actually runs FTP and HTTP servers, as well as allowing archive maintainers to log in and work on their respective archives I would NEVER call wcarchive ``just'' a ftp server!) Gary