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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISP
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Organization: Mordor International
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 11:02:24 GMT
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Louis Epstein (lepslog@j51.com) wrote:
: 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?

Yep.

Chris
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