From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 04:34:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA02523 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:22:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA02470 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:22:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.okbmei.msk.su (ns.okbmei.msk.su [194.190.170.40]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id XAA21878 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 23:01:55 -0800 Received: from kiae.UUCP by ns.okbmei.msk.su with UUCP id AA03212 (5.67c8/IDA-1.5); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:46:34 +0300 Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by sequent.kiae.su with SMTP id AA10155 (5.65.kiae-2 for ); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:37:29 +0300 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA01422 Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:58:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA01034 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:55:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.okbmei.msk.su (ns.okbmei.msk.su [194.190.170.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA01025 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:55:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from kiae.UUCP by ns.okbmei.msk.su with UUCP id AA01542 (5.67c8/IDA-1.5); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:43:30 +0300 Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by sovcom.kiae.su with SMTP id AA22591 (5.65.kiae-1 for ); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:16:13 +0300 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA07040 Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:23:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA04587 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:15:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwbone.bsi.com.br ([200.250.250.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA04520 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:15:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from lenzi ([200.247.248.103]) by cwbone.bsi.com.br (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA23850; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 20:14:15 GMT Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 20:15:07 -0300 (EST) From: "Lenzi, Sergio" X-Sender: lenzi@lenzi To: "Rui A. Castro" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD on a very low cost Inter/Intranet project In-Reply-To: <313EFE80.5D02@telepac.pt> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Charset: KOI8-R X-Char-Esc: 29 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Rui A. Castro wrote: > Hi to all at FreeBSD.org. > > After 7 years of working and studying the DOS/Win/Intel combo and > avoiding Unix at all cost, I think that I have come to the point > where there is not much more to learn or to be challenged by. So I > decided to start studying and using something that I had refused for all > this time - Unix. Be wellcome friend. That's a new world. You'll see. > > Being kind of new at it and at very technical internetworking > technologies and communications I get lost some times. > > That's where FreeBSD comes on scene. I've read on a document I > downloaded from your site, that one can use FreeBSD, a pre-historical > i386 computer and a COMM board to build a low cost router. > > Now this is where things get more complicated. I have built a Netware > 3.11 network at the office and I need to know the following: > > > 1 - I think I can use FreeBSD to establish a Internet server. Am > I right? Yes a powerfull one. > > 2 - Can I then connect my NW3.11 network to the FreeBSD Internet > Gateway so I can use it in dual mode (Internet/Intranet)? Yes in an easy way. It's all in the CD. > > 3 - Can I use a FreeBSD system to provide dial-up access to my > WWW site (multi-line, multi-modem)? Yes, I have build several internet providers using FreeBSD and a dumb serial board. > > Any and all help would be appreciated, as would some book tips on these > subjects. > You can count on me. or as you say: Pode contar conosco, tem gente boa aqui no Brazil, tem o Pedro do Instituto de Quimica que e' um cara bom pacas. Um abraco,