Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 12:28:20 -0500 (EST) From: "Jason T. Nelson" <jason@purcell.jlc.net> To: jking@mnsinc.com (James King) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Starting a New ISP Message-ID: <199602281728.MAA06592@purcell.jlc.net> In-Reply-To: <199602280141.UAA23811@mail1.mnsinc.com> from "James King" at Feb 27, 96 08:41:59 pm
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> Can someone recommend so Ports to Setup a FreeeBSD System, Examples what is > needed to handle PPP/SLIP/CSLIP Accesses, and FTP Server as well as WWW Servers > and any other Recomended Services. Also any feed back as far as Pros and > Cons of using FreeBSD as an ISP. We're almost entirely a FreeBSD based ISP now (with one NEXTSTEP workstation I've been putting off converting) and we're *very* happy with the performence we've been seeing since moving away from a "commercial" OS. Our Web server is running Apache 1.0.0 (the one with SSL). The kernel on that machine handles 50 httpd processes at once without blinking, all while I'm playing phantasia or netrek in an X window at the console. The main reason we're using FreeBSD for our Web server is that I've used it at home for eons and I was impressed with the developers professional attitudes as compared to Linux. Plus, the network performance is VERY impressive. Try pushing data at 900kb/s across a 10baseT network between two machines with Linux ;) We also have a machine dedicated to news carrying all news except most of alt.* (mainly to keep our hands from getting slapped with reference to the CDA and OCAF); it purrs along very nicely doing an expire. The SCSI adaptor is a BusLogic 946C, with all drives sync doing 10MB/s transfers. Recently, we decided to use a FreeBSD machine as our main router between our Ethernet and a T1 frame relay link to the outside world. It can easily keep the T1 (at 384kbps mind you) from sucking air. We're using Emerging Tech's high speed SIO card for the link to the CSD/DSU; I'm impressed to see companies developing software for FreeBSD in addition to the over-hyped Linux. In the end though, we decided to go with Livingston Portmasters for terminal servers because of the lack of moving parts. -- Jason T. Nelson <jason@jlc.net>
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