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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!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 06:42:56 GMT Organization: BEST Internet Communications, Inc. Lines: 39 Message-ID: <56p0hg$grn@nntp1.best.com> References: <56cfhc$h8b@access5.digex.net> <56dl8p$rje@panix2.panix.com> <56igd8$if@anorak.coverform.lan> <328FA7E5.446B9B3D@whistle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: flea.best.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:50553 comp.protocols.ppp:15936 comp.unix.questions:91458 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31195 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4886 :In article <328FA7E5.446B9B3D@whistle.com>, :Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> wrote: :>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 This would work, but it's a very space-intensive solution. At this point, a 486 is probably the minimum you'd want to get. A pentium would probably be better because you could put five times the number of serial ports in the box for not too much more money. -Matt