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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.networking:9650 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip:12685 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:3333 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!wizard.pn.com!news.zeitgeist.net!usenet From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS? Date: 20 Jul 1995 01:57:06 GMT Organization: TLGnet, a division of RGNet, Inc. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3ukd5i$abm@kadath.zeitgeist.net> References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <id.VAPL1.0SA@nmti.com> <3uhstv$pf@empire.texas.net> <id.GARL1.I6A@nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) X-URL: news:id.GARL1.I6A@nmti.com peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote: >In article <3uhstv$pf@empire.texas.net>, >Joseph R.M. Zbiciak <im14u2c@millenium.texas.net> wrote: >> It's certainly possible. I wouldn't recommend it, however. At least, >> not yet. Too many PC boxes have suboptimal architectures. More established >> workstation-class machines would probably be better choices, and nowadays, >> such machines can be had for the same price as a big PC. > >I maybe would consider an Alpha-based box, because then you're getting more >horsepower than you can get out of a PC, period. But the low end Alpha servers >use the same bus as the PCs! However, the Alphas can drive the PCI at full speed and I am not sure that this matters for an ISP since the bottleneck most likely will be the network connection. I would chose FreeBSD or Netbsd on a P90 with a nice PCI adapter Bustek or Adaptec and if you really have to I would tried out Linux. On the traditional workstations, the one objection that I have is support and the lack of sources *freely* available. I have run slip, ppp , and have been directly connect to a network with FreeBSD. Right now, I am connected to the Net using an ISDN Ascend router. Most the connectivity problems have been associated with my ISPs and not with my system which is kind of cool after a while people do pay attention :) Not sure if it matters but my system is also connected to the MBONE . Enjoy, Amancio