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From: "Zenaan Harkness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "SLUG" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 3:09 PM
Subject: [SLUG] ISP Rebranding/ Wholesaleing question
Hi, I'm looking for some information on starting an ISP:
1) ISP Upstreams who provide rebranding (must include ADSL).
2) Info on ISP backoffice software as well (radius server, etc). I found
eg. http://www.anime.net/linuxisp/Linux-ISP-HOWTO.html but it's from
1995!
Did give me a good start to reading though... I've been doing a lot of
reading on software required - dns, email, control panel, etc. Happy for
recommendations.
3) Is there a forum - physical gathering slug-like forum - for small
to medium ISPs, in Sydney?
4) Recommended online community for small/med ISPs?
PS: I spoke to someone last Friday night, I think John - I discovered
Sat night that my mailbox was full, unfortunate events... it's emptied,
although Godaddy's IP addresses are right now RTBLed (couldn't post
this email to slug), so hopefully gmail might work...
Thanks in advance
Zen
Zennaan,
The usual process in building a DSL ISP in oz is as follows:
1) Contact Telstra Wholesale and request a Layer 2 wholesale DSL service.
2) Organise AGVC links (ATM or GE) to Telstra IGR's in each state where you
would like to sell services
3) These links will terminate at your premises in each state, you need to
supply LNS's (these terminate PPP over L2TP from your customers)
4) Organise RADIUS (Free RADIUS) for your LNS's to talk to, this becomes
your authentication and accounting platform (RADIUS will need to feed
accounting records into your billing system
5) Organise DNS (BIND is fine)
6) Organise Internet transit (Telstra, Optus, etc)
7) Provide a mail platform (I don't think thats a must have these days)
8) Build a customer care portal so your customers can check their usage,
change plans, etc.
The hardest bit is the billing system (IMHO)
Cheers,
Barrie
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