In your email to me, Dave Cinege, you wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:23:14 -0400 (EDT), Tim Sailer wrote: > > >> >I haven't played with the source yet. I was hoping not to. I'm trying to > >> >put together an 'instant ISP' type system, complete with a linux based > >> >term server. I use the SDL WAN cards, with the builtin csu, so I'm > >> >also building a 'pop-in-a-box' solution. Get your phone lines, your > >> >leased line, plug this all in and turn it on. > >> > >> This is what we will be working on.... > >> > >> Linux Router Project www.psychosis.com/linux-router/ > > > >I'm doing a little more that that on the remote end. With a 1 gig drive > >and 64mb ram, you can have DNS, and a web cache running on the box > >too. Using everything you can to reduce the traffic, you can get a lot > >of modems on a 56k line. > > Combining your data and terminal server is bad practice and a bad idea.
True.. thats not what I'm doing though. Like I said, it's a pop.. everything goes back to the main network. > If you also intend to do all routing from the box you are crazy. > > router/terminal server, ok but web/ftp/etc should be in a separate box. Right. But forwardonly DNS and a web *cache* (within limits of the cpu and memory) can run happily on the same box. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "Time flies like an arrow... Fruit Flies like a Banana!" ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
