Having done this with Athy's and Intel chips the ones that are designed to do this can be a pile of problems at times. Very minor differences can cause issues on the intel side liek same s revision but one malaysa and one philipean procs sometimes will not work stabaly with each other. Granted this in intel and that shared bus can be a big issue. Now with athys SMP systems tend to be more picky about there memory to begin with and modded XP's do seem to instigate this effect (8 procs modded 3 had issues) now granted it's pretty easy to just run the proc as a single again and things work fine.
Now with this all being said there are a lot of good reasons to go with SMP Athy's especialy as the FSB bandwith increases overall with each proc thats a realy nice thing (take the new 3200's as MP once thats avalible thats equivalint to the 800 quad pumped buss of the PIV's) If your running applications that realy require some CPU time and are multi threaded SMP is the way to go (hyperthreading works well here to) normaly this is what youwant to see on a web server etc httpd procs can run on one proc while say any local DB is running.
Wire is good Fiber is better if you have piles of cash or a large assortment of cast off cards from clients Wireless is great if it's a laptop or just realy realy hard to get to and dosent need speed.
My own house I have a combination of all three fiber as a backbone between the 2 primary switches in the attic and basement. Cat5 running 100bt to every room via punch downs. And a couple AP's on there own subnet that I run a VPN over to the router (Linux box the 2651 was OVERKILL:) The 2 AP's are own there own channels and provide 802.11b and g respectivly
Actualy some of the cat 5 run serial for things like IR receivers etc. Now need to figure out how to get USB over cat5 with some distance.
Drilling holes in things isnt as hard as it seems granted I have the right tools (nothing beats a flexdrill bit with a hole in it for pulling and a few 3 foot extensions I made it basement to attic in one pull)
And finaly why would you make something stationary like most computers wireless:) for laptops its great same for PDA's etc I love the fact my PDA syncs as soon as it comes inside.
Ok it's got a thumb print reader now tack on DRM and anybody else envisioning your WMA player requiring you to authenticate yourself to listen to the music in 3 years? After all you purchaced (or it it leased as purchacing does not allow the RIAA's sponsers to collect enough money so leasing is much more attractive to them you dont pay no more music collection) the liscence to listen to the music and only you.
It's good news because it explicitly says it's ok to connect to a network that you dont know to be closed. Computer do this automaticaly so this is a needed protection. It's about the same as a door if it's not locked and looks to be something open to the publi you can go through it but install one of those little luggage locks and now it's not legal to go through it even through it's trivial to break it.
Finaly somebody that still remembers the concept of soverign nation. Countries do as they please hopefully to the benifit of there citizens. Larger countries strong arm and control less powerfull nations because they can and because it may be in the best interest of there citizens. That internation court is a bit of a joke it's least common denominator rights at best.
Now the UN lets face it it was designed to keep the smaller countries in line while not affecting the powers that be why do you think there are those perminent members on the secuirty council with veto power. The UN serves to keep smaller countries in check and has no real affect on the larger ones. Look at us with the POW from afganistan techincal we commited war crimes by allowing them to be put on TV housing them in a prision facility etc etc etc. But it all comes back the the unstated law that war crimes are only for the faction that looses.
More importantly how many people do you know that got into the tech industry in the boom and have no real ability there. The big thing about the tech industry is it knows how to automate there shouldent be any grunt jobs thats part of the point your either inovating solutions or your out. Some people are not ready for this and dont have the aptitude and that is the vast majority of the people I have found that have trouble getting work in this market. I dont hire people that dont do tech work as a hobby and the educational background unless it's entry level. That guy that wants to put in a 40 hour week and dosent build / hone there skills dosent belong in this business period.
Sony's tapes are still pretty scarce now lets look at a currently shipping solution LTO 200 gigs per tape at a head cost of under 6k and a tape cost of 150 ish for 200 gigs. The changer is about 5k for a 10 tape unit. Drive speeds are similar 30MB a sec for the tape IDE drives are doing about 40 - 50 real world in similar configs (single disk) There are plety of OTS backup solutions that allow multiple tape drives to be used in a single backup set. Granted you might want a robot but in reality unless the latency to tape change is realy important a cheap human works well. Change out tape heads as the become avalible inside the series of tapes and you get nice increases at minimal cost. HD make since if you need to backu p data fast and need a lot of access to it. Tapes work realy well if you just need to make sure there is a backup. If it wasent for the slow speed of things DVD-R might be attractive for longer term backups (monthly fulls) at 1 buck a pop for dvd-r thats a little more than 20 cents a gig with a VERY cheap drive and playback in VERY inexpesive drives for restor purposes.
Yes you would need to update the proc to support newer better memory just like you do today for the most part. It's generaly a good idea to run your memory in sync with your FSB right now. By putting the memory controler on the chip that could let them upgrade to DDR500 via a new chip and let MB manufactures cert old MB's to work at the marginaly higher clock rate. Now to work with a whole new type of ram the whole controler will have to be changed out with the assumption being that AMD made this task easier by makign the memory controler monolithic inside the die.
Actualy it needs a better routing system more than IP's. Out current routing system relies on most providers only connecting to a single provider. Granted IPv6 can help in this by giving every provider more IP space from the getgo than they should ever need lets say 2^40 addresses I beleive my rough math makes that out at 1024 billion addresses per provider. If every provider only had one range the tables would shrink significatly there is an ASN limit of 2^16 anyway that would halve the current number of routes on the internet 110000 or so right now.
OK can everybody stop being a IPv6 cheerleader it's not a great protocal as it dosent fix the routing issues. Multicast is nice but see any of my other posting on the subject thats not going to happen anytime soon. Granted if every endpoint froman ISP get afew thousand addresses that would be nice. The fact that the PC's dont know there complete address is nice as that stops the silly include IP information in the data portion.
Now the bad IPv6 does little to nothing to fix the issues or routing. Great I can have thousands of public Ip's at my house for the normal monthly access cost great it's not reliable there is a single link to my house (in the hypothetical secerio) routing bits need to be fixed more than we need to get rid of NAT. Things work with NAT for the most part and new protocals are being designed more and more to work with NAT. And lets face it for most users they only want to initate connections out least till VoIP becimes realy popular. Anyway want something truely usefull that there isn't a good way to get arround try a real dynamic replacement for BGP. Something that is self agrigating, has a low utilization of memory / can be implemented in hardware, allows for multihoming without breaking and does all of this securly. Other features that are should be considered are packet source verification (if a router dosent have a route back to the sourse on that link it drops the packet aka no more spoofing adresses outside your subnet) A secure and automatic multihoming peice so somebody with DSL and cable could be resiliant and fast along with corps multip T's to providers etc etc etc. Allow for injection of bandwith, latency and preferance into the tables to be used as part of the routing calculation. Allow for community strings for null routing and other DOS abatments.
Ah yes most PBX's have the option to do analog for fax machines etc and you could hook up some cordless phone to that but look at what you would loose compartivily.
Lack of full phone functionality you realy only have a normal phone nothing like the feature set of a standard pbx phone. This would be ok for the ocational tech call but not good for say a roving manager.
Range with multiple AP's you can get complete coverage the best I have seen a cordless do is 2 basestations.
Roaming VoIP phones can gereraly work anyplace they can get a DHCP address be that your local starbucks or an airport. Now this dosent sound like much of a feature compared to say forwarding to a cell phone.
Now I dont see why you woulden forward call to your cell phone instead of dealing with a cordless assuming you have a plan with free incomming there is just the base monthly cost associated with it.
PBX and internal lines analog? I havent seen an office with more than 10 people working in in in at least 5 years with an analog phone system. It's cheaper to get a voice T dropped in and hook the PBX up to that. Generaly the only thing that gets an analog line are the fax machines. And for wireless it's generaly one of those nearly useless headsets that connects to the phone no outbound dialing on it.
That being said a wifi VoIP phone might be a realy usefull thing. You could walk around the datacenter with it while talking to outside support. It generaly works with the piles on unencrypted AP's out there. And I think the big thing is you can take it with you inside the building everybody might not need to know your cell phone so that could be reserved to the people that realy need to get in touch with you.
OK being someone that has designed security mesures on some larger projects and did plenty of hacking in his youth (were talking dialup days and the internet was something you had access to from some hosts) you have a big difference with the script kiddies that are running around now. Most of them are compotent to be a sys admin or a jr engineer they just dont understand the system well enough. Now hirering old school hackers I dont see a problem with they had a moral code of there own and were explorers. You also need to keep up with the scene to know what the latest thing in the land of script kiddies is.
As a secondary I dont think your normal developer is qualified for dealing with security either. They dont have enough of the scope. You need to deal with all the threats especialy your help desk. People are normaly the easiest way to get in. Lets look at a normal secerio of wanting to get access to a web site.
Step 1 traceroutes to find out where this thing is.
2 Research that place is it hosted on company prem or at a colo facility.
(assuming a colo) 3 get a server inside that same colo and research how they do things there.
4 Check for a soft center a lot of colo's only have perimiter security. Also check for blessed boxes in the colo site monitoring stuff etc.
5 See what information is needed to get things liek firewall rules changed, a tech on the console etc.
6 Pick the easiest method with least risk may thats calling in a trouble ticket and having them open up a backdoor for you from console maybe attack it from your box on the inside.
Now this all assumes that you want to do real hacking not just randomly pick up drones on the internet and try ahd DOS you least favorite web site or IRC foe.
This is true but not supporting multicast means you cant call it IPv6. I say this because if you did sign people up for this new IPv6 option or whatever and dont support multicast to all your IPv6 peers then your could be sued as all your supporting is IPv6 numbering and that would be deceptive advertising.
Can be get the birth rate down while we do that? You have to have an infant mortality rate of 20% when you have pople having 10 children. Think Zero to low population growth this is what gets you into problems of starving less mouthes to feed = more food up to a point. Of course you need to couple this with taking care of the AIDs infection rate. How about handing out condoms, norplant getting a few computers in and showing them how to do the fresh water think in 3 easy lessons on cdrom?
Oh for the religious pople that got Africa into the baby boom. I realy dont care that sex that isn't to produce a baby is imoral in your views that nice you have as many as you want now just dont let the rest of the world help you please it's your own fault but some of us feel sorry for your starving dieing children whoes fault is not there own there parents listen to religious zelots.
Can you tell I dislike organized religion? Well I'll work on that one I'm sure they will forgive me if I truely repent now lets hold our breath untill that happens. Oh look the light the light yes it does burn.
OK it loks like you want to fiber yourself up a man, ok not a bad idea LRE ethernet may be a better use for residential (100mb deditated should be enough for anyone:) well maybe not but it should be cost justified vs terminating all that fiber in the house day one) Fiber running around the city would seem prudent if it was easily accesable and could be reached in a few days to the buildings thats a LOT better than the normal 6 month build in.
OK good services Network access obviously a good vlan or MPLS infrastructure would be a good idea so you can sell pipes as well as plain IP access. This can allso allow compatition between uplinks pretty much allow the city to take care of infrastructure not being an ISP and all those bits like TOS, filtering etc.
OK Next things is VoIP this is cheap effective and lets face it good at driving the prices of the telco down to something reasonable. Posibly partnering with somebody like vontage for that offering they drop a line in and you can get a LOT of VoIP over a T1 backhaul. There are some good solutions for this check out whatever Cox is using on cable tv as well. It would be a good thing to see about PoE on this one as it's not a good thing to have no phones working when the power is out. I dont know wether you can do LRE and PoE on the same line though.
Finaly you have cable tv. Multicast streaming on it's own vlan can be a wonderfull thing no idea if they make a set top box for this yet. PC access to cable would be a nice plus for a town with so many students.
OK some notes on the IP sode of things obviously it would be nice if Multicast works for videoconferencing etc at least inside the town. If your doing you own ISP thing definatly restrict servers a fastE link is expensive. Companies deal with you on links 200 megs a sec and over the pricing goes way down if you take the handoff as a gige and run it back yourself this can save you significat ammounts of cash.
Your not going to see IPV6 untill they figure out how to bill for multicast traffic as it's REQUIRED to work inside IPv6 not optional like under v4. This is a HUGE problem in implementing it as you cant bill for it rationaly. How much sould it cost are home users going to be billed per megabit leaving there ISP? If multicast works lots of the current issues with the net can go away think bit torrent is fast think about file send loops via multicast just join as many as you have bandwith to receive. All of the routers etc etc out there have supported IPv6 for a long time I cant say that people are realy familiar with it but it could be made to work but you NEED to be able to fit a billing plan around it before any of the big guys are going ot make it work world wide.
It would seem they have added blocking to all dynamic IP senders. ISP's submit these blocks willingly if your ISP put you on the list of dynamic IP have a talk with them NOT AOL. Not all ISP's submit to these lists. Generaly the best thing to do is to have your sendmail use your ISP's mailserver as a smart relay it gets rid of the issues.
Now as to why people with dynamic IP's are responcible for a VAST ammount of spam (per my spamfilters and thats for over a quarter million domains and no I dont have pretty graphs:) It's jsut way to easy and fast to get DSL, cable modem, or dial up and start sending email dialup especialy. These people cause serious ammounts of grief to the ISP's that end up with them.
Actualy it's half duplex a single sender could get close to 11 as long as nothing else was in the air like responce packets. This is the same as traditional ethernet in a standard envirnment twister pair ethernet only goes dull duplex with switching involved.
No read what I said you dont need or want an AGP slot not no grafics card. AGP uses a LOT of pins on the northbridge that couls better be made another peer PCI channel. What I'm saying is if it has an AGP slot it's not a server motherboard those have build in video chipsets, this is primarly what differentiates them from Workstation boards that have some new AGP 110 or what have you along with multiple peer PCI-X busses.
Ah but Free BSD's issues are with getting real applications to support it for business. I'm talking Linux as in RedHat enterprise with things like Oracle running it's few things outside of scientific and academic peices that need a realy big memory box for anything else.
There are still plenty of PCI slot cards out there but server boards generaly come with some little ATI or similar card hooked up to PCI with 8 megs of ram.
OK first off for those that insist that more than 4 gigs is only for server machnes scroll down a few stories and look at the 12 gig max 7505 chipset board. Now repeat after me if it hav an AGP slot it's not a server it's a workstation. Anyway can anybody think a good reason to run BSD with a pile of memory compared to say Linux????
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Having done this with Athy's and Intel chips the ones that are designed to do this can be a pile of problems at times. Very minor differences can cause issues on the intel side liek same s revision but one malaysa and one philipean procs sometimes will not work stabaly with each other. Granted this in intel and that shared bus can be a big issue. Now with athys SMP systems tend to be more picky about there memory to begin with and modded XP's do seem to instigate this effect (8 procs modded 3 had issues) now granted it's pretty easy to just run the proc as a single again and things work fine.
Now with this all being said there are a lot of good reasons to go with SMP Athy's especialy as the FSB bandwith increases overall with each proc thats a realy nice thing (take the new 3200's as MP once thats avalible thats equivalint to the 800 quad pumped buss of the PIV's) If your running applications that realy require some CPU time and are multi threaded SMP is the way to go (hyperthreading works well here to) normaly this is what youwant to see on a web server etc httpd procs can run on one proc while say any local DB is running.
Wire is good
:) The 2 AP's are own there own channels and provide 802.11b and g respectivly
:) for laptops its great same for PDA's etc I love the fact my PDA syncs as soon as it comes inside.
Fiber is better if you have piles of cash or a large assortment of cast off cards from clients
Wireless is great if it's a laptop or just realy realy hard to get to and dosent need speed.
My own house I have a combination of all three fiber as a backbone between the 2 primary switches in the attic and basement. Cat5 running 100bt to every room via punch downs. And a couple AP's on there own subnet that I run a VPN over to the router (Linux box the 2651 was OVERKILL
Actualy some of the cat 5 run serial for things like IR receivers etc. Now need to figure out how to get USB over cat5 with some distance.
Drilling holes in things isnt as hard as it seems granted I have the right tools (nothing beats a flexdrill bit with a hole in it for pulling and a few 3 foot extensions I made it basement to attic in one pull)
And finaly why would you make something stationary like most computers wireless
Ok it's got a thumb print reader now tack on DRM and anybody else envisioning your WMA player requiring you to authenticate yourself to listen to the music in 3 years? After all you purchaced (or it it leased as purchacing does not allow the RIAA's sponsers to collect enough money so leasing is much more attractive to them you dont pay no more music collection) the liscence to listen to the music and only you.
It's good news because it explicitly says it's ok to connect to a network that you dont know to be closed. Computer do this automaticaly so this is a needed protection. It's about the same as a door if it's not locked and looks to be something open to the publi you can go through it but install one of those little luggage locks and now it's not legal to go through it even through it's trivial to break it.
Finaly somebody that still remembers the concept of soverign nation. Countries do as they please hopefully to the benifit of there citizens. Larger countries strong arm and control less powerfull nations because they can and because it may be in the best interest of there citizens. That internation court is a bit of a joke it's least common denominator rights at best.
Now the UN lets face it it was designed to keep the smaller countries in line while not affecting the powers that be why do you think there are those perminent members on the secuirty council with veto power. The UN serves to keep smaller countries in check and has no real affect on the larger ones. Look at us with the POW from afganistan techincal we commited war crimes by allowing them to be put on TV housing them in a prision facility etc etc etc. But it all comes back the the unstated law that war crimes are only for the faction that looses.
More importantly how many people do you know that got into the tech industry in the boom and have no real ability there. The big thing about the tech industry is it knows how to automate there shouldent be any grunt jobs thats part of the point your either inovating solutions or your out. Some people are not ready for this and dont have the aptitude and that is the vast majority of the people I have found that have trouble getting work in this market. I dont hire people that dont do tech work as a hobby and the educational background unless it's entry level. That guy that wants to put in a 40 hour week and dosent build / hone there skills dosent belong in this business period.
Thats why they just baught linksys so they have an outlet for consumer products not just office and high end gear for the tech side.
Sony's tapes are still pretty scarce now lets look at a currently shipping solution LTO 200 gigs per tape at a head cost of under 6k and a tape cost of 150 ish for 200 gigs. The changer is about 5k for a 10 tape unit. Drive speeds are similar 30MB a sec for the tape IDE drives are doing about 40 - 50 real world in similar configs (single disk) There are plety of OTS backup solutions that allow multiple tape drives to be used in a single backup set. Granted you might want a robot but in reality unless the latency to tape change is realy important a cheap human works well. Change out tape heads as the become avalible inside the series of tapes and you get nice increases at minimal cost. HD make since if you need to backu p data fast and need a lot of access to it. Tapes work realy well if you just need to make sure there is a backup. If it wasent for the slow speed of things DVD-R might be attractive for longer term backups (monthly fulls) at 1 buck a pop for dvd-r thats a little more than 20 cents a gig with a VERY cheap drive and playback in VERY inexpesive drives for restor purposes.
Yes you would need to update the proc to support newer better memory just like you do today for the most part. It's generaly a good idea to run your memory in sync with your FSB right now. By putting the memory controler on the chip that could let them upgrade to DDR500 via a new chip and let MB manufactures cert old MB's to work at the marginaly higher clock rate. Now to work with a whole new type of ram the whole controler will have to be changed out with the assumption being that AMD made this task easier by makign the memory controler monolithic inside the die.
Actualy it needs a better routing system more than IP's. Out current routing system relies on most providers only connecting to a single provider. Granted IPv6 can help in this by giving every provider more IP space from the getgo than they should ever need lets say 2^40 addresses I beleive my rough math makes that out at 1024 billion addresses per provider. If every provider only had one range the tables would shrink significatly there is an ASN limit of 2^16 anyway that would halve the current number of routes on the internet 110000 or so right now.
Anyway just my 2 cents.
OK can everybody stop being a IPv6 cheerleader it's not a great protocal as it dosent fix the routing issues. Multicast is nice but see any of my other posting on the subject thats not going to happen anytime soon. Granted if every endpoint froman ISP get afew thousand addresses that would be nice. The fact that the PC's dont know there complete address is nice as that stops the silly include IP information in the data portion.
Now the bad IPv6 does little to nothing to fix the issues or routing. Great I can have thousands of public Ip's at my house for the normal monthly access cost great it's not reliable there is a single link to my house (in the hypothetical secerio) routing bits need to be fixed more than we need to get rid of NAT. Things work with NAT for the most part and new protocals are being designed more and more to work with NAT. And lets face it for most users they only want to initate connections out least till VoIP becimes realy popular. Anyway want something truely usefull that there isn't a good way to get arround try a real dynamic replacement for BGP. Something that is self agrigating, has a low utilization of memory / can be implemented in hardware, allows for multihoming without breaking and does all of this securly. Other features that are should be considered are packet source verification (if a router dosent have a route back to the sourse on that link it drops the packet aka no more spoofing adresses outside your subnet) A secure and automatic multihoming peice so somebody with DSL and cable could be resiliant and fast along with corps multip T's to providers etc etc etc. Allow for injection of bandwith, latency and preferance into the tables to be used as part of the routing calculation. Allow for community strings for null routing and other DOS abatments.
Ah yes most PBX's have the option to do analog for fax machines etc and you could hook up some cordless phone to that but look at what you would loose compartivily.
Lack of full phone functionality you realy only have a normal phone nothing like the feature set of a standard pbx phone. This would be ok for the ocational tech call but not good for say a roving manager.
Range with multiple AP's you can get complete coverage the best I have seen a cordless do is 2 basestations.
Roaming VoIP phones can gereraly work anyplace they can get a DHCP address be that your local starbucks or an airport. Now this dosent sound like much of a feature compared to say forwarding to a cell phone.
Now I dont see why you woulden forward call to your cell phone instead of dealing with a cordless assuming you have a plan with free incomming there is just the base monthly cost associated with it.
PBX and internal lines analog? I havent seen an office with more than 10 people working in in in at least 5 years with an analog phone system. It's cheaper to get a voice T dropped in and hook the PBX up to that. Generaly the only thing that gets an analog line are the fax machines. And for wireless it's generaly one of those nearly useless headsets that connects to the phone no outbound dialing on it.
That being said a wifi VoIP phone might be a realy usefull thing. You could walk around the datacenter with it while talking to outside support. It generaly works with the piles on unencrypted AP's out there. And I think the big thing is you can take it with you inside the building everybody might not need to know your cell phone so that could be reserved to the people that realy need to get in touch with you.
OK being someone that has designed security mesures on some larger projects and did plenty of hacking in his youth (were talking dialup days and the internet was something you had access to from some hosts) you have a big difference with the script kiddies that are running around now. Most of them are compotent to be a sys admin or a jr engineer they just dont understand the system well enough. Now hirering old school hackers I dont see a problem with they had a moral code of there own and were explorers. You also need to keep up with the scene to know what the latest thing in the land of script kiddies is.
As a secondary I dont think your normal developer is qualified for dealing with security either. They dont have enough of the scope. You need to deal with all the threats especialy your help desk. People are normaly the easiest way to get in. Lets look at a normal secerio of wanting to get access to a web site.
Step 1 traceroutes to find out where this thing is.
2 Research that place is it hosted on company prem or at a colo facility.
(assuming a colo)
3 get a server inside that same colo and research how they do things there.
4 Check for a soft center a lot of colo's only have perimiter security. Also check for blessed boxes in the colo site monitoring stuff etc.
5 See what information is needed to get things liek firewall rules changed, a tech on the console etc.
6 Pick the easiest method with least risk may thats calling in a trouble ticket and having them open up a backdoor for you from console maybe attack it from your box on the inside.
Now this all assumes that you want to do real hacking not just randomly pick up drones on the internet and try ahd DOS you least favorite web site or IRC foe.
This is true but not supporting multicast means you cant call it IPv6. I say this because if you did sign people up for this new IPv6 option or whatever and dont support multicast to all your IPv6 peers then your could be sued as all your supporting is IPv6 numbering and that would be deceptive advertising.
This is why it makes more sence for a dynamic and secure Bogons route feed. To bad I haven't seen one yet.
Can be get the birth rate down while we do that? You have to have an infant mortality rate of 20% when you have pople having 10 children. Think Zero to low population growth this is what gets you into problems of starving less mouthes to feed = more food up to a point. Of course you need to couple this with taking care of the AIDs infection rate. How about handing out condoms, norplant getting a few computers in and showing them how to do the fresh water think in 3 easy lessons on cdrom?
Oh for the religious pople that got Africa into the baby boom. I realy dont care that sex that isn't to produce a baby is imoral in your views that nice you have as many as you want now just dont let the rest of the world help you please it's your own fault but some of us feel sorry for your starving dieing children whoes fault is not there own there parents listen to religious zelots.
Can you tell I dislike organized religion? Well I'll work on that one I'm sure they will forgive me if I truely repent now lets hold our breath untill that happens. Oh look the light the light yes it does burn.
OK it loks like you want to fiber yourself up a man, ok not a bad idea LRE ethernet may be a better use for residential (100mb deditated should be enough for anyone :) well maybe not but it should be cost justified vs terminating all that fiber in the house day one) Fiber running around the city would seem prudent if it was easily accesable and could be reached in a few days to the buildings thats a LOT better than the normal 6 month build in.
OK good services Network access obviously a good vlan or MPLS infrastructure would be a good idea so you can sell pipes as well as plain IP access. This can allso allow compatition between uplinks pretty much allow the city to take care of infrastructure not being an ISP and all those bits like TOS, filtering etc.
OK Next things is VoIP this is cheap effective and lets face it good at driving the prices of the telco down to something reasonable. Posibly partnering with somebody like vontage for that offering they drop a line in and you can get a LOT of VoIP over a T1 backhaul. There are some good solutions for this check out whatever Cox is using on cable tv as well. It would be a good thing to see about PoE on this one as it's not a good thing to have no phones working when the power is out. I dont know wether you can do LRE and PoE on the same line though.
Finaly you have cable tv. Multicast streaming on it's own vlan can be a wonderfull thing no idea if they make a set top box for this yet. PC access to cable would be a nice plus for a town with so many students.
OK some notes on the IP sode of things obviously it would be nice if Multicast works for videoconferencing etc at least inside the town. If your doing you own ISP thing definatly restrict servers a fastE link is expensive. Companies deal with you on links 200 megs a sec and over the pricing goes way down if you take the handoff as a gige and run it back yourself this can save you significat ammounts of cash.
Well thats all I could think off off the cuff.
Your not going to see IPV6 untill they figure out how to bill for multicast traffic as it's REQUIRED to work inside IPv6 not optional like under v4. This is a HUGE problem in implementing it as you cant bill for it rationaly. How much sould it cost are home users going to be billed per megabit leaving there ISP? If multicast works lots of the current issues with the net can go away think bit torrent is fast think about file send loops via multicast just join as many as you have bandwith to receive. All of the routers etc etc out there have supported IPv6 for a long time I cant say that people are realy familiar with it but it could be made to work but you NEED to be able to fit a billing plan around it before any of the big guys are going ot make it work world wide.
It would seem they have added blocking to all dynamic IP senders. ISP's submit these blocks willingly if your ISP put you on the list of dynamic IP have a talk with them NOT AOL. Not all ISP's submit to these lists. Generaly the best thing to do is to have your sendmail use your ISP's mailserver as a smart relay it gets rid of the issues.
:) It's jsut way to easy and fast to get DSL, cable modem, or dial up and start sending email dialup especialy. These people cause serious ammounts of grief to the ISP's that end up with them.
Now as to why people with dynamic IP's are responcible for a VAST ammount of spam (per my spamfilters and thats for over a quarter million domains and no I dont have pretty graphs
Actualy it's half duplex a single sender could get close to 11 as long as nothing else was in the air like responce packets. This is the same as traditional ethernet in a standard envirnment twister pair ethernet only goes dull duplex with switching involved.
No read what I said you dont need or want an AGP slot not no grafics card. AGP uses a LOT of pins on the northbridge that couls better be made another peer PCI channel. What I'm saying is if it has an AGP slot it's not a server motherboard those have build in video chipsets, this is primarly what differentiates them from Workstation boards that have some new AGP 110 or what have you along with multiple peer PCI-X busses.
Ah but Free BSD's issues are with getting real applications to support it for business. I'm talking Linux as in RedHat enterprise with things like Oracle running it's few things outside of scientific and academic peices that need a realy big memory box for anything else.
There are still plenty of PCI slot cards out there but server boards generaly come with some little ATI or similar card hooked up to PCI with 8 megs of ram.
OK first off for those that insist that more than 4 gigs is only for server machnes scroll down a few stories and look at the 12 gig max 7505 chipset board. Now repeat after me if it hav an AGP slot it's not a server it's a workstation. Anyway can anybody think a good reason to run BSD with a pile of memory compared to say Linux????