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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!faui0n.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISP Date: 21 Oct 1995 11:20:29 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <46ahhd$g47@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <45ujr7$fis@ra.isisnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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. sax.sax.de is doing this as a non-commercial ISP, running now FreeBSD 2.0.5 (after staying with 1.1.5.1 for very long) on a 486/40 with currently 16 MB RAM. (Gee, was this an improvement over the previously used MicroVax 2000. :-) Despite of being able to access the Newsspool of the nearby university, everything else an ISP can think of is being handled by this machine. I estimate the current number of users at about > 50. The machine is still not too loaded, but we are thinking of enlarging it / setting up a second one. (I don't assume any of our users will ask what operating system would be on the next machine. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)