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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!cuhknntp!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!spcuna!ritz!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISP References: <45ujr7$fis@ra.isisnet.com> <466ad6$1a9@palmer.demon.co.uk> <46qqqp$gd8@news2.ios.com> Organization: Mordor International Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 04:57:52 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: <DH574H.HKA@ritz.mordor.com> Lines: 42 Rashid Karimov (rashid@rk.ios.com) wrote: : Hi there folx : Gary Palmer (gary@palmer.demon.co.uk) wrote: : : In article <45ujr7$fis@ra.isisnet.com>, : : 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. : Yes , it is ... I personally have expirience running : FreeBSD servers with 4.000 accounts per server . : Works pretty good and fast - on P90/PCI/SCSI. Uptimes : were up to 1 mos and more .... : The absolute musts are: : - only DECENT HW - especially memory. Try to go with 60ns EDO : SIMMS, Adaptec 2940 PCI-SCSI,SMC EtherPower,Seagate NOT. EDO is non-parity. : HDDs (Barracuda works just fine for us here), plenty of RAM : ( at least 64 MB of it). : The motherboard should be (preferably) Triton based .. the good : one is P55TP4Xes from ASUS. Triton doesn't support parity either from what I'm told. Regards, Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451