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Setting up an Internet Service Provider
The Internet Access FAQ
This is a must-read for anyone running their own ISP (or planning to set one up).
Advice for Beginning ISPs
"I have recently gotten a bunch of inquiries from budding ISPs that basically ask where to start, how to get a bit of a handle on all the baffling information and new terminology I have discussed in the FAQ. Thus, this document. It will help you determine whether being an ISP might be for you, and suggest a brief (one-month) and moderately priced ($ 0- $ 3,000) experiment you can embark on to see if you're ISP material."
Becoming an Internet Service Provider (BSD)
Internet Online Pricer (most useful for US readers)
An automatic pricer that, given your area code, phone number, and the speed of your desired connection (average utilization; ranging from 64Kbps to 45Mbps), will mail you a detailed connection rate. Find out how much an MCI connection would cost without having to talk to a sales rep.
Internet Provider Map
Still wondering how the pieces fit together? This shows you the relationships between your main server, your router, your CSU/DSU, your upstream provider, your terminal server, your news server...
Administering an Internet Service Provider
Multi-Homing for the Small ISP
"Avi Freedman's Multi-Homing FAQ discusses this interesting, necessary and expensive step." - David Dennis
Multi-Homing and BGP Routing Tutorial
Avi Freedman (who wrote the Multi-Homing FAQ above) posts an in-progress BGP tutorial intended for the first-time multi-homing small ISP. Includes a sidebar on Cisco BGP commands.
RAID Discussion
Michael Dillon focuses on practical uses of RAID for ISPs.
Security
Usenet Storage Space Calculator
Find out how much disk space your news server needs to store the newsgroups you want.
UUNET's Recent Critical Outages
Internet Service Provider Tools and Components
Apache Web Server
Apache is now the most popular web server in the world. The Apache project has been organized in an attempt to answer some of the concerns regarding active development of a public domain HTTP server for UNIX. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server which provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.
Cache Breaker Sites
Not strictly a tool, this is actually more of a resource. This is a list of sites that cause problems with web caches. "They are not easily accessed by users who rely on proxy cache software to overcome bandwidth limitations. This is either because their sites are not cacheable, or they do not give the cache enough information as when to expire their content. The latter leads to users complaining about "stale" pages and reloading them often."
Firewalls mailing list
"The Firewalls mailing list is for discussions of Internet firewall security systems and related issues. Relevant topics include the design, construction, operation, maintenance, and philosophy of Internet firewall security systems."
Internet Mail and Mailing Lists
Internet News
Radius Authentication Server
"Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service: Remote Network Access Security in an Open Systems Environment. RADIUS is a system of distributed security that secures remote access to networks and network services against unauthorized access."Squid Proxy Cache
"Squid offers high performance proxy caching for web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, and http data objects. The cache software, available in binary and source, is more than an order of magnitude faster than the CERN cache and other popular Internet caches, because it never forks for WWW and gopher access, is implemented with non-blocking I/O, keeps meta data and especially hot objects cached in RAM, caches DNS lookups, supports non-blocking DNS lookups, and implements negative caching both of objects and of DNS lookups." - Squid FAQ. If you liked Harvest, try Squid!
Windows NT Web Server Tools
Databases, counters, guestbooks, mailers, CGI, search engines, chat, connectivity tools, finger servers, DNS servers, firewalls, proxy servers, ftp/gopher/http servers, log analysis, mail servers and gateways, news servers, NFS, Perl, telnet servers, X Window clients - a ton of Windows NT Web server tools and much, much more.CERT Coordination Center
The CERT Coordination Center was formed in 1988 to serve as a focal point for the computer security concerns of Internet users.
Internet Provider Resources
This list of links and descriptions is maintained by David H. Dennis (author of the ISP FAQ), and is a must-bookmark for anyone involved with an Internet provider.
Inet-Access mailing list (searchable archives)
"The Inet-Access mailing list is a superb resource for ISP's (Internet Service Providers) in which they, or those who wish to become ISP's, may exchange ideas about setting up Internet access systems" - The Inet-Access Archives
Internet Engineering Task Force
"The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the protocol engineering and development arm of the Internet. The IETF is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet."
Internet Network Infomation Center (InterNIC)
Directory services, Net Scout services, domain name and IP network number assignments, support services.
The Internet Society
"The Internet Society is a non-governmental International organization for global cooperation and coordination for the Internet and its internetworking technologies and applications."
PH-ISP Archive
Mailing list for Philippine Internet Service Providers.
World Wide Web Consortium
