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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!ns1.win.net!ns1.win.net!not-for-mail From: bugs@news.win.net (Mark Hittinger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Was: ISP , now: How Using FBSD? Date: 24 May 1995 15:08:54 -0400 Organization: Win.Net Communications, Inc. Lines: 49 Message-ID: <3q0086$bq8@ns1.win.net> References: <3pqb92$lq2@pt9201.ped.pto.ford.com> <3prh5v$au8@fnord.dfw.net> <D91zw7.J95@tfs.com> <D937xB.HEG@tigger.jvnc.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns1.win.net X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #4 (NOV) Jumping from freebsd-current to freebsd-current based on stability. I have a full T1 newsfeed with lots of web and ftp. News batching for about 3000 subset newsfeeds. I have a annex-3 and portmaster front ends which route the ppp/slip directly to our cisco/t1. uucp gets switched to the host which is handling that site. A couple of T1's deliver incoming 1-800 from USA and Canada. Running majordomo, ftpmail, gophermail, webmail, inn, cern-httpd, virtual-web-domains, annex-security-server, and radiusd. Playing with cuseeme-reflector. I've got a three pentium cluster with about 13 gig of disk. Things are working pretty well and I'm having lots of fun with FreeBSD. We originally had Interactive Unix and Solaris boxes. In October we looked at linux and in November we looked at FreeBSD when it was released. Gradually I was able to convert the Solaris activity over to FreeBSD. As I've dug into the Interactive stuff the pace has slowed down but the ultimate goal is to convert the remaining crufty ware over to FreeBSD. No Solaris and only 1 Interactive box remain. I recommend FreeBSD highly, however, I do think you need a terminal server front end to keep the ppp load off the main box. You will want to have a test box to run -current on. You don't want to do this on your production server. I find that the reliability of the kernel goes in cycles. After you play with it for awhile you will have a sense of when to take your own "snapshot" of -current. You use that on your production box. Afterwards -current goes haywire for awhile. Then it calms down, and works better than your prior snapshot. One of the experiments on the table is to use some digiboards and build a terminal server with FreeBSD. For now though we are using off the shelf stuff. Regards, Mark Hittinger bugs@win.net -- "This is going to cause more confusion than a mouse in a burlesque show." - Foghorn Leghorn.