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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!van-bc!news.mindlink.net!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail 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: 19 Nov 1996 22:45:15 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <56u9dr$q7f@cynic.portal.ca> References: <56cfhc$h8b@access5.digex.net> <56p0d1$gp5@nntp1.best.com> <56q3nn$m69@cynic.portal.ca> <56r37b$l07@nntp1.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:50646 comp.protocols.ppp:15965 comp.unix.questions:91598 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31285 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4897 In article <56r37b$l07@nntp1.best.com>, Matt Dillon <dillon@flea.best.net> wrote: > Who said anything about not supporting SNMP? Who said > anything about not supporting routing protocols? I sure > didn't! Well, your software is becoming less trivial by the minute. > But telnet/rlogin passthrough (which does require TCP)... that was > something that was a necessity years ago but you can *easily* get > away without it these days as 98% of your potential customer > base will be running PPP. Umm...on your terminal server 100% of your potential customer base will be running PPP. :-) I still have plenty of customers that need non-network access, though. And UUCP, for example, is still pretty popular, probably because it's by far the cheapest way to sling mail and news around for a small (or even largish) office. 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.