From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 8 07:36:33 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA18763 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Jan 1995 07:36:33 -0800 Received: from efn.efn.org (gurney_j@efn.org [198.68.17.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA18757 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 1995 07:36:31 -0800 Received: by efn.efn.org (4.1/smail2.5/05-07-92) id AA21717; Sun, 8 Jan 95 07:34:47 PST Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 07:34:46 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney To: "Hugh S. Ellis" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP/IP stack for PCs In-Reply-To: <199501040144.UAA00314@domus.domus.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 3 Jan 1995, Hugh S. Ellis wrote: > > Hi there, > > I will be using my FreeBSD system as a firewall through which my users > will connect to the Internet. (Network's not connected yet since my firewall > isn't quite ready :( > > While FreeBSD is really cool, I think I may get some resistance to converting > all my users from DOS to FreeBSD. Given that they may be running DOS, or > worse, DOS + Novell, what is the best way to allow them to access my FreeBSD > server? since you are running Novell... you might want to look at Lan Workplace for dos.. it provides a TCP/IP stack while using the ODI drivers allowing them to coexist quite nicely... then if you need packet driver interface... you can use a program called ODIPKT... it will provide a pktdriver interface over the ODI driver... but it doesn't use the TCP/IP stack... it uses it own stack.... > > I have been told that there are some reasonable public domain TCP stacks for > PCs running Windows. Any recomsmendations as to what I should be looking for? > Also, if I can tune up my firewall, I would like to get them running X. Are > there versions of X for MS-Windows out there? What is likely to be most > compatible with my FreeBSD system? and as some one else mentioned... Xappeal... I know that it should be on a SimTel mirror in the xwindows directory... Hope this works... TTYL... John-Mark Gurney gurney_j@efn.org -or- gurney_j@4j.lane.edu -or- Fido: John-Mark Gurney @ 1:152/56.2