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From: lepslog@j51.com (Louis Epstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISP
Date: 29 Oct 1995 14:25:35 GMT
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Chris Mauritz (ritz@ritz.mordor.com) wrote:
: Rashid Karimov (rashid@rk.ios.com) wrote:

: : 	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.

Parity,I take it,being an "absolute must" in your view?