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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!usenet From: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon) 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: 18 Nov 1996 06:40:33 GMT Organization: BEST Internet Communications, Inc. Lines: 30 Message-ID: <56p0d1$gp5@nntp1.best.com> References: <56cfhc$h8b@access5.digex.net> <56m2q9$k1c@cynic.portal.ca> <56mi1l$6pa@nntp1.best.com> <56o21s$6ad@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: flea.best.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:50552 comp.protocols.ppp:15935 comp.unix.questions:91457 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31194 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4885 :In article <56o21s$6ad@cynic.portal.ca>, :Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.portal.ca> wrote: :>In article <56mi1l$6pa@nntp1.best.com>, :>Matt Dillon <dillon@flea.best.net> wrote: :> :>> In general, the only reason multi-port turnkey (black box) solutions :>> are more expensive then PC solutions is that it's a seller's market. :>> It actually costs a whole lot less to make a black box with a whole :>> slew of serial ports and an ethernet interface then it is to run them :>> on a PC. :> :>Well, there is the minor matter of writing the software that runs :>on those boxes. (Or perhaps this is something a real `hardware :>engineer' can whip off in a day or two.) :> :>cjs :>-- :>Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ :>Internet Portal Services, Inc. :>Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil. It takes a combination of hardware and software engineering. That is certainly a factor. But the actual software is not all that complicated. You don't even need to implement a TCP stack, just the PPP protocol on the serial port end, standard ethernet on the ethernet end, and real trivial routing to support dyamic PPP. static IP is harder... but still not a huge deal. -Matt