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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 1999 03:47:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
To:        freebsd@cliffsworld.com
Cc:        freebsd-small@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: what to do with an old 486
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990422034733.jobaldwi@vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <371EA101.85F2C30@cliffsworld.com>

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On 22-Apr-99 cliff ainsworth III wrote:
> I have this 486/33 with 20 megs of ram, a 125 meg hard drive and a
> Netgear nic. I would like to use it as a dial out box for my lan. I have
> a Netgear hub. I would love to use PicoBSD as my server and possibly be
> able to dial back into it. Does Pico support multilink PPP like FreeBSD
> does? OpenBSD and NetBSD don't support multilink yet. So I figured I
> would try Pico before I just install FreeBSD on it. Any ideas or
> suggested configs for it? Here's another question. since Pico is built
> on 3.0 does it support SMP? I don't see a reference to it so I shall
> assume not.

It doesn't support SMP by default, but you could easily build your own that had
SMP support in about 10 minutes or so.  As for supporting multilink PPP, if
FreeBSD does, then Pico does, since it uses the same exact ppp program.  :) 
Hope this helps.

> thanx in advance
> 
> -cliff

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