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

From: Andy Holyer (andyh_at_hhbb.co.uk)
Date: 01/10/05

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To: martes.wigglesworth@earthlink.net

    On 9 Jan 2005, at 00:11, Martes Wigglesworth wrote:

    >
    > From: Martes Wigglesworth <martes.wigglesworth@earthlink.net>
    > To: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at>
    > Cc: "heath, Chia Hui Chen" <heath0504@gmail.com>
    > Subject: Re: Viable FreeBSD Network Access Server projects...?
    >
    > Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 00:59:56 +0300
    >
    > Also, to supply, 56K service, would I be able to use the multi-modem
    > approach, or do I need to have the DSL with digital "modems" and all
    > that jazz? I am reading about the digital "RAS" setups, and all the
    > info sites that I am using seem to fall off, just after the analog
    > explanations. They seem to have a good definition of the RAS system
    > however, they fail to demonstrate how one may build one, using the
    > digital cards, to service analog dialup traffic.
    >
    It's perfectly possible - in fact I did exactly this at my first ISP,
    Pavilion Internet in Brighton, 10 years ago. Multiple serial boards are
    available, and just look like several /dev/tty connections. Set them up
    to run PPP, and put a modem on each of them and you're going. It looks
    ludicrous (we resorted to velcro-ing the dial-up modems to the wall of
    the machine room), but yes, it does work.

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