Viable Freebsd Network Access Server projects....?

[Bob Martin]

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.