Viable Freebsd Network Access Server projects....?

[Martes Wigglesworth]

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.  
-- 
Respectfully,


M.G.W.

System:
PCChips K7SOM MB 
AMD K7 Pro 1800 
256MB RAM
40GB HD
10/100 NIC
FreeBSD-5.2.1-RELEASE