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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!kettle.magna.com.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISP Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 03:51:25 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <30877F2D.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <45ujr7$fis@ra.isisnet.com> <466ad6$1a9@palmer.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b1 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) Gary Palmer wrote: > 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. Well, we're running SLIP rather than PPP in this case (and PPP would be equally doable) but there is an ISDN line coming into WC now (from my house) that goes right from one FreeBSD box into a sliplogin on another FreeBSD box. I get 10.8K/sec transfers using compressed data (to a host one hop past the gateway), and that's not too bad for a 115.2K async serial port plugged into a PC! :) I think that a single 486 DX/2 could probably switch up to 4 ISDN lines comfortably at async serial speeds. If you had an intelligent sync serial card plugged in on both ends, I daresay you could go easily go faster and wider with less overhead. -- Jordan