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Date:      Fri, 12 May 2000 10:41:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:      David Miller <dmiller@search.sparks.net>
To:        "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>
Cc:        Shawn Barnhart <swb@grasslake.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Server Farms? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005121039310.9869-100000@search.sparks.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005111705170.10397-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>

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On Thu, 11 May 2000, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:

> On Thu, 11 May 2000, Shawn Barnhart wrote:
> 
> >For the record, though, what *are* the "good" ones?  I looked for the
> >Equinox mentioned earlier on on Ebay and didn't find any.
> 
> Generially anything which will provide you an IP layer is the best
> option.  Livingston Portmasters are what first come to mind.  There are
> other solutions provided by various companies including 3Com.  Generally
> those things get to be pretty expensive though.  You might look for
> completely serial layer solutions from companies like Stallion,
> Lantronix, or even and old DEC box.  You just have to dig to find this
> stuff.

Portmasters are rock solid stable and would do very nicely.  There should
be a ton of them available cheap from ISP's all over who have converted to
digital access for 56K modems.  Once you had to take PRI/CT1 in the
portmasters were useless.  Easy to configure too.

--- David



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