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  From: Paul Schulz <pauls@CAEmrad.com.au>
  To  : richardrussell@mail.com
  Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 10:45:53 +0930

Re: An Idea...

Some followup:

  Richard> I must preface this by saying that I'm not exactly a guru
  Richard> sysadmin, in fact, I'm not much of a sysadmin to speak of
  Richard> at all... 

  Richard> The Market: Any business, organisation or group who wants a
  Richard> basic, simple server. They need things like SMB, SMTP,
  Richard> POP3, IMAP, HTTP, Proxy/Cache, Firewall, DHCP, DNS, etc,
  Richard> etc, etc -- all things that most servers can do (NT,
  Richard> NetWare, Unices, Linux). 

I know of the following 'real' examples.. (while I don't want to add
confusion by adding company names, I quite happy to add pass on
details to get something like this off the ground).

Company A: CAD design company, uses NT (and NT networking). Has
clients in USA and with dialup account has to wait 45 min while large
work files are transfered via email.  Have heard of Linux, but arn't
interested in another OS.. Have hear about 'firewalls' and would like
one so that machines won't be locked up while transfers are in
progress.  (Read.. mail spooler)

Company B: Have a single dialup account on boses machine.  Have Windows
network using IP (rather than NetBeui).
[Solution: LRP box serving the dialup.. dial on demand?]

Companies C through H: Tenents in a building have been offered a
larger bandwidth internet connection (with some 'pay by the MB
billing' arrangment).  Each tenent is linked back to the ISP via a
virtual path on a shared connection, so that any traffic between them
goes over the link twice. 
[It is desired to set each company be set up with a
firewall/router/cache so that they can connect to a local peer network  
and reduce some of the network traffic/cost, as well as make use of 
local mirrors, IP telephony etc.]

  Richard> Hope you enjoyed my flight of fancy... :)

I think it would be great to do.  It would be better to have some form
of company/agency supporting this work as well.  In the above cases,
part of my hessitation is that I might not be able to support the
installations, and even though Linux expertise is out there, the
people that I would be supplying don't know that.

PaulS
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Paul Schulz(pauls@caemrad.com.au)                             SysAdmin
CAE MRad, Innovation House West, First Avenue, TECHNOLOGY PARK SA 5095
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