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Mike Avery | 3 Mar 2003 04:51

FAQ? Starter guide?

I've started thinking about starting an ISP in this small mountain village....

being a FreeBSD user, I'd rather set it up with FreeBSD.  I've been looking for FAQ's,  
Howto's, or other hints for the bewildered.... so far, no joy.  I've been a network geek for 
a long time, but on LANs and WANs with the site to site infrastructure already in place... 
and no marketing to worry about.

I was wondering if anyone could recommend resources to get me pointed in the right 
direction.  

Thanks,
Mike
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Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine | 3 Mar 2003 04:54
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Re: FAQ? Starter guide?

Mike,

I'm doing just this. I'm in Portland, Maine. Where are you?

Eric

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Matthew Wallis | 3 Mar 2003 05:07
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Re: FAQ? Starter guide?


On Monday, Mar 3, 2003, at 14:51 Australia/Melbourne, Mike Avery wrote:

> I've started thinking about starting an ISP in this small mountain 
> village....
>
> being a FreeBSD user, I'd rather set it up with FreeBSD.  I've been 
> looking for FAQ's,
> Howto's, or other hints for the bewildered.... so far, no joy.  I've 
> been a network geek for
> a long time, but on LANs and WANs with the site to site infrastructure 
> already in place...
> and no marketing to worry about.
>
> I was wondering if anyone could recommend resources to get me pointed 
> in the right
> direction.
>
Sounds more like an ISP question, than a FreeBSD-ISP question. You 
might want to hunt
around for a local ISP group. In Aust we have a couple of groups, one 
called aussie-isp,
that I'm on. So long as you're not taking away their business, 
someone's usually willing
to help.

I know there's some major ISP lists in the States, I just can't think 
of them right this
second.
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Mike Avery | 3 Mar 2003 06:42

Re: FAQ? Starter guide?

On 2 Mar 2003 at 22:54, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote:

> I'm doing just this. I'm in Portland, Maine. Where are you?

Gunnison, Colorado.

While we have two ISP's in town, there's lots of bitching about them... I 
smell an oppportunity.  Probably an opportunity to lose my shirt.

Mike

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Dave [Hawk-Systems] | 3 Mar 2003 14:04

RE: FAQ? Starter guide?

>I've started thinking about starting an ISP in this small mountain village....
>
>being a FreeBSD user, I'd rather set it up with FreeBSD.  I've been
>looking for FAQ's,
>Howto's, or other hints for the bewildered.... so far, no joy.  I've
>been a network geek for
>a long time, but on LANs and WANs with the site to site infrastructure
>already in place...
>and no marketing to worry about.
>
>I was wondering if anyone could recommend resources to get me pointed
>in the right
>direction.

As far as FreeBSD is concerned, Matt Simerson has a good mail toaster (google
will turn it up) which is based on FreeBSD, other resources just take some
googling to dig them up.  I am not sure that you will find a complete resource
simply because FreeBSD would only encompas the OS portion of your solution.
makes this thread a little OT.

While we are plastering this list with a post though, here are some other
resources;

ISP Survival Guide - Wiley - ISBN 0-471-31499-4 - getting dated, but real good
information in there to give you a solid foundation and help you avoid simple
mistakes.

ISP Planet - www.isp-planet.com - wide range of resources, lists, documents,
reports, etc...  will occupy alot of your time.  Good up to date information,
along with hostorical information.
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tony | 4 Mar 2003 05:40

unable to update to 4.x from 4.5 STABLE


Been running a server for long long time updated from 4.3 to 4.5 and after 
some debate decided to update again this evening.
Unfortunately I did not save the cvsup log, since I've never had problems in 
the past (my bad!)
*Last update >> FreeBSD opensrs.saignon.net 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE 
#0: Wed Mar 27 13:45:30 PST 2002 
root <at> opensrs.saignon.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/stable4_ipfw  i386 

Tried a make buildworld, and getting the below errors;
Anyone have any quick thoughts on what might be wrong?? 

echo colldef: /usr/lib/libc.a /usr/lib/libl.a >> .depend
cc -O -pipe  -I. -I/usr/src/usr.bin/colldef 
 -I/usr/src/usr.bin/colldef/../../lib/libc/locale -DCOLLATE_DEBUG 
 -DYY_NO_UNPUT    -D__FBSDID=__RCSID -c parse.c
In file included from /usr/src/usr.bin/colldef/parse.y:32:
/usr/include/arpa/inet.h:89: warning: parameter has incomplete type
/usr/include/arpa/inet.h:92: warning: parameter has incomplete type
/usr/include/arpa/inet.h:96: warning: parameter has incomplete type
cc -O -pipe  -I. -I/usr/src/usr.bin/colldef 
 -I/usr/src/usr.bin/colldef/../../lib/libc/locale -DCOLLATE_DEBUG 
 -DYY_NO_UNPUT    -D__FBSDID=__RCSID -c scan.c
In file included from /usr/src/usr.bin/colldef/scan.l:40:
/usr/src/usr.bin/colldef/y.tab.h:15: `STR_LEN' undeclared here (not in a 
function)
*** Error code 1 

Stop in /usr/src/usr.bin/colldef.
*** Error code 1
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Odhiambo Washington | 5 Mar 2003 06:44

CPAN Troubles

Hello everyone,

I am having some strange problems with CPAN, especially the Digest::MD5 module.
It failed me when I attempted to install perl5.8.0 from the ports. I decided
to install 5.6.1 instead, but still this module is messaing my life up. It's
failure is giving me enough agony for obvious reasons - other modules are
dependent on it:

longonot# cd Digest-MD5-2.23
longonot# perl Makefile.PL
Testing alignment requirements for U32... no restrictions
Writing Makefile for Digest::MD5
longonot# make
cc -c  -DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/BSDPAN" -fno-strict-aliasing
-I/usr/local/include -O -pipe
-DVERSION=\"2.23\"  -DXS_VERSION=\"2.23\" -DPIC -fPIC -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/CORE  MD5.c
MD5.xs: In function `XS_Digest__MD5_md5':
MD5.xs:661: `dowarn' undeclared (first use in this function)
MD5.xs:661: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
MD5.xs:661: for each function it appears in.)
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/wash/Digest-MD5-2.23.
longonot#

-Wash

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Poppa Mike | 5 Mar 2003 22:21

pdflib and fonts w/ php from ports

Hi,

Sorry if this is a bit OT. I installed mod_php4 from ports and chose the
pdflib (among others) support. It installed pdflib 4.0.3. I'm trying to
play around with the pdf generation but am getting errors.

Fatal error: PDFlib error: Outline data for font 'Helvetica' not found in
myfile.php on line 20

The offending line:
$font = pdf_findfont($pdf, "Helvetica", "builtin", 1);

(I also got this error with "host")

I created a "generic" pdflib.upr file (from the pdflib-manual) but it
doesn't seem to be finding the fonts. Well, I can't either ;). I did
notice they were in the work directory of the port
(/usr/ports/print/pdflib/work/pdflib-4.0.3/fonts/), but `locate afm`
yielded nothing (the locate db has not updated to find the ones I just
extracted). Am I missing something very basic (like what fonts to install,
where, etc.) or should the port have installed these somewhere?

Someone please knock me upside the head with a clue-stick.

TIA,

mike

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Chris Bowlby | 6 Mar 2003 04:05
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multiple SSL key's on one IP several Vhosts...

Hi All,

  Googling for a result of an issue where I've got more then one SSL key I 
want to enable on a site (one that is certified and one that is self 
signed) I ran across and issue where Multiple key's appear to not work on 
the same IP, is this still the case? even after two years? Who's bright 
Idea was it to tie the SSL key to the IP address and domain, and not just 
the domain?

  If anyone has a work around for the this, it would be very useful to know 
(other then more then one IP assigned to the VH, not an option as a 
limitation of jails...)

thanks in advance..

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tony | 6 Mar 2003 04:31

IP addresses changing...


I just received an email from my ISP that all my IP addresses are changing! 

Any hints from anyone on how to keep the downtime minimal, and update all my 
DNS records so I don't fall off the face of the Internet! 

I have 5 days.... 

Thanks, 

 -tony

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