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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!news From: wilsonm@spartan.hsc.unt.edu (Mike Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISP Date: 24 Oct 1995 00:17:02 GMT Organization: University of North Texas Lines: 27 Message-ID: <46hb9u$2gs@hermes.acs.unt.edu> References: <45ujr7$fis@ra.isisnet.com> <46ahhd$g47@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: shivapt2.hsc.unt.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 In article <46ahhd$g47@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de says... > >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 use >rs >>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 I am currently setting up 2 Freebsd P5/133's with 32 meg of ram for an ISP. They plan to increase that number to prolly 2 more withing a month or two. One is the primary email/web server for users the other is a news (INN) server (4 2gig drives). The user base for this system should be around 200 users. (We are using a Portmaster as a connection method). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- wilsonm@hsc.unt.edu Mike Wilson Shadowdale Mud at dale.community.net 7777 <a href="http://www.hsc.unt.edu/~mwilson">My HomePage</a> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------