In the old days the MAEs used to be based on shared Ethernet 10 Mbps, later evolved into switched FDDI (100 Mbps) access. The problem with that architecture was that no QoS (Quality of Service) was possible. I.e. you couldn't limit the amount of traffic you wanted to exchange with somebody else. To get around this problem a new architecture called MAE-ATM was put in place, where customers could buy DS3 (45 Mbps), OC-3 (155 Mbps) or OC-12 (622 Mbps) physical ports into the MAE and then configure via a Web-interface how big the pipe to another peering partner should be.
regards,
Heiko
P.S.: For some MAE information you can take a look at http://www.mae.net
I've recently had very good success with Xmanager (http://www.xmanager.com) as a stable/fast X-Server under Win 32 (98/NT). Yes, it's commercial ($62 single user, quickly going down with volume) but if you're forced to use Windows as your desktop it makes life more bearable.
The previous release PetiDomo II has been released under the GPL. Their website is in German, but if you send them an email they should be able to help you in english.
You might have to go for a low end Pentium to be able to play MP3s correctly, as the 486 is a little bit weak for this.
Another alternative would be to use an external MP3-doit-yourself project that was listed in the German magazine ct', which can enable an old PC to send the raw MP3-data to the parallelport without requiring CPU-power:
Yes it is very saddening to see a good old friend slowly die. I've also moved to the Linux platform and am still amazed how insanely great it is after having used it for a couple of years, but it's not the same feeling as with the original Amy (I'll never part with my A1000/A3000).
Thanks Leo for some of the great hacks and a couple of good giggles.
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Just a sidenote, UUNET's total backbone bandwidth has been increasing by 800-1000% every year since about 1994...
In San Jose at Broadbandyear John Sidgemore (Vice Chairman, MCI WorldCom & UUNET) said in a keynote:
"Bill Gates thinks that bandwidth should be free, of course we believe software should be free."
Heiko - who works for WCOM, but is not a mindless drone
In the old days the MAEs used to be based on shared Ethernet 10 Mbps, later evolved into switched FDDI (100 Mbps) access. The problem with that architecture was that no QoS (Quality of Service) was possible. I.e. you couldn't limit the amount of traffic you wanted to exchange with somebody else. To get around this problem a new architecture called MAE-ATM was put in place, where customers could buy DS3 (45 Mbps), OC-3 (155 Mbps) or OC-12 (622 Mbps) physical ports into the MAE and then configure via a Web-interface how big the pipe to another peering partner should be.
regards,
Heiko
P.S.: For some MAE information you can take a look at http://www.mae.net
Hi,
I've recently had very good success with Xmanager (http://www.xmanager.com) as a stable/fast X-Server under Win 32 (98/NT). Yes, it's commercial ($62 single user, quickly going down with volume) but if you're forced to use Windows as your desktop it makes life more bearable.
regards,
Heiko
You might want to have a look at PetiDomo III which is designed to handle huge mailinglists.
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http://www.cys.de/deutsch/produkte/index-petido
The previous release PetiDomo II has been released under the GPL. Their website is in German, but if you send them an email they should be able to help you in english.
Good luck,
Heiko
You might have to go for a low end Pentium to be able to play MP3s correctly, as the 486 is a little bit weak for this.
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Another alternative would be to use an external MP3-doit-yourself project that was listed in the German magazine ct', which can enable an old PC to send the raw MP3-data to the parallelport without requiring CPU-power:
http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/projekte/mp3player_1
ALternatively PumpII:
http://leute.server.de/peichl/mpegcd.htm
regards,
Heiko
Yes it is very saddening to see a good old friend slowly die. I've also moved to the Linux platform and am still amazed how insanely great it is after having used it for a couple of years, but it's not the same feeling as with the original Amy (I'll never part with my A1000/A3000).
Thanks Leo for some of the great hacks and a couple of good giggles.
Heiko