Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:38:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael R. Rudel" <mrr@aerosmith.dyn.ml.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org> Cc: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970721153722.435B-100000@aerosmith.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <E0wqM6C-0001jA-00@rover.village.org>
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On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <19970719221428.10703@gtn.com> Andreas Klemm writes: > : Is FreeBSD turing PC's into workstations or is it only used > : for lamer PC hardware ?! > > I have a whole pile of old PC parts that I'm using to build multiple > routers. FreeBSD is making all of this possible. I don't know if I'm > a typical case, but I do know what has frustrated me with this > interprise to date. This pile of PC parts are free, and I'm doing > this in time I'd otherwise not be billing, and I don't have a lot of > cash to buy an extra ethernet card (x 5) and an extra SCSI controller > (x 5) and bunch of other things that people seem to tell me are cheap > enough to buy. FreeBSD works really well on these machines. > > My biggest complaint is the configuration of ethernet devices. It > would be nice if there were some easier way to do this automatically. > > Warner > Never seen it, but I've heard one or two flavors of Linux have a graphical ifconfig... This sounds right up jkh or phk's isle, doesn't it? They could do something that will (very) niftily save it to /etc/rc.conf or some such thing.. Heck, maybe even right a graphical /etc/rc.conf editor. ;) -- Michael R. Rudel -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- mrr@aerosmith.dyn.ml.org FreeBSD aerosmith.dyn.ml.org 3.0-CURRENT PGP Key Block: finger mrrpgp@aerosmith.dyn.ml.org
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