Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 23:39:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Travis & AmberLee Brown <tabrown@sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for an ISP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971116233746.9641L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01bcf29d$82561c80$cffbacce@browns>
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On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Travis & AmberLee Brown wrote: > I just wanted to know what I would have to add to FreeBSD (if anything), > to enable me to use it as an Internet Service Provider. It will be a > small outfit, probably about 5 incoming lines for now, and 1 main > connection to the internet (probably through a Ethernet Cable Modem > (500Kbps). I know I will need hardware, but is there any software which > must be purchased to accomplish this. Not particularly. > Please send me any information you have regarding this, plus any > suggestions you might have. I would suggest the following: 1. Become intimately familiar with the resources available at http://www.freebsd.org. The experience of thousands is available there. 2. Subscribe to the freebsd-isp mailing list. > By the way after looking through your website and the information on > FreeBSD I am very impressed with it, that's why I am considering it for > my server. That is a good thing to hear. :-) Let us (or www@freebsd.org) know if there is anything we can do to make the site more useful to you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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