Re: Viable Freebsd Network Access Server projects....?

From: Bob Martin (bob_at_buckhorn.net)
Date: 01/08/05

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    Get an old USR Total Control 1000, with an NT Edge Server. Load FreeBSD
    on the edge server. Every thing you ever wanted or needed to do dial-up
    in a 5U box.

    Bob

    Martes Wigglesworth wrote:
    > The "pasive backplane" setup, is just a dummy board, that has nothing
    > but system buses, ISA, PCI, or combination of the two, with a pci slot
    > taken up by another PCI board that holds the processor. Nothing
    > special, just a more industrial/specialized way of using multiple
    > Interface cards, on a machine that does not need any other overhead. I
    > am trying to build something for a production ISP environment, so I
    > guess scalability is a necessity. In such a setup, if it is doable, the
    > only thing would be finding Multi-modem cards that are hardware-based,
    > or at least have drivers for Unix/Linux.
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