Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 22:12:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: 2 queries] Message-ID: <199908080213.WAA79610@bilver.magicnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908071322470.34130-100000@titan.aye.net> from Barrett Richardson at "Aug 7, 1999 1:26:12 pm"
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Barrett Richardson recently said: > Indeed true. What type of contingancy plan do you have for failure > of the 7513? Well it's a pretty rugged piece with dual power supplies. We need to add the second RSP. The plan is for a 7500 series across town - colocated at a transport provider - and their link enters and leaves the state by different routes that our first one. We have also discussed satellite links (not the DirecTV/Hughes) stuff. We even did a video uplink 4 weeks ago for a convention. We're all communications oriented having worked in broadcast. And last week the convention center got a letter of praise from IBM saying that they have several large shows a year, but the convention had the best service and support of any that they had ever encountered. Sun and Compaq both said almost the same thing. Niche market ISP - providing high-speed short term connections, to industrial style customers. We brought up a 250+ node network in two days (there was pre=planning and pre-wiring up to a point), ran it for four days, and took it all down again. All the machines were coming up just fine and it all went down hill rapidly. We found one of their machines - and no one knows what caused it - as setting all the machines up after that one was setup to use itself as the gateway. Took a while to find that. And everyone was changing Token-Ring cards for 10baseT. Never saw so many laptops in one place before, and none with Token-Ring. At first you hope nothing breaks until you get the rest going. However there will also be some routers running on BSD - mainly used for bandwidth management and outgoing T1s, and we might put a HISSI card in there. Bill -- bv@wjv.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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