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From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
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: 17 Nov 1996 14:02:36 -0800
Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc.
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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
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