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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news.ac.net!news.serv.net!not-for-mail From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Starting up an ISP using FreeBSD Date: 3 May 1996 01:39:03 -0700 Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4mcgn7$60q@itchy.serv.net> References: <4m5ic0$iu6@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net In article <4m5ic0$iu6@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu>, Parag Chhibber <pchhibbe@attila.stevens-tech.edu> wrote: > >This one machine would be effectively a csu/dsu, router, dns server, smtp >server, nntp server, www server, and other things. > Ouch. Can you say 'one point of failure?' Do yourself a favor, get a dedicated router. Either buy a cisco or some such router, or buy a decent net card for FreeBSD (like the etinc.com stuff.....) and run it with nothing else on it. You could certainly try it, but both my intuition and everything I've heard says this is a bad idea. I've had enough problems putting too much faith in a single system. -- Sean T. Lamont, President / CEO, Abstract Software (ServNet) - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson