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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.whistle.com!usenet From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.protocols.ppp,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Best Unix for SLIP/PPP Server- Best Reliability/Cost? Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:03:49 -0800 Organization: Whistle Communications Lines: 29 Message-ID: <328FA7E5.446B9B3D@whistle.com> References: <56cfhc$h8b@access5.digex.net> <56d1m9$9ba@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu> <56dl8p$rje@panix2.panix.com> <56igd8$if@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: s205m22.whistle.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:50545 comp.protocols.ppp:15930 comp.unix.questions:91443 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31181 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4881 Brian Somers wrote: > > > It would be better to have something like a terminal server translating your > traffic to something more "expandable" like network traffic. > at the price of old 386 machines it would be a better idea to set up a separate box for each 16 ports or so, and run them off a special "terminal server" floppy , maybe with a memory filesystem as is done on teh boot floppy. I'm sure you could make the following configuration work just fine: 16 ports of SIO 4 MB ram 1 floppy 1 ethernet card 1 ancient 386(sx?) machine you could stack these infinitly to get a very expandable solution.. the 16 ports of IO would be the most expensive part julian