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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!peerfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!msunews!sidney.cps.msu.edu!newsmaster From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) 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 20:46:32 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 35 Message-ID: <56qhv8$d7@sidney.cps.msu.edu> References: <56cfhc$h8b@access5.digex.net> <56d1m9$9ba@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu> <56dl8p$rje@panix2.panix.com> <56igd8$if@anorak.coverform.lan> <328FA7E5.446B9B3D@whistle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm245-26.dialip.mich.net X-MSUnetID: perkins X-Newsreader: RadicalNews (TM) 0.8.8 Beta(i) Cc: julian@whistle.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:50590 comp.protocols.ppp:15948 comp.unix.questions:91510 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31226 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4892 >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 Yep... TechSmith Corporation has the Foray PPP Server that will do just that... www.techsmith.com They suggest more than a floppy (for logging purposes). - Steve -- ============================================================== Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.3 NeXT PPP-2.3 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/