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> > Some FreeBSD friends and I have formed something we call BSDNet, it's an 
> > irc network that we use instead of EFNet after much frustration with it 
> > inherent lag and splits. We are looking to expand the network. It is 
> > completely free. 

We might be interested in joining in a few weeks.  Our servers are 
running FreeBSD 2.1.5R.

> I'm here, and it looks good.  I'd probibly try to use my 386DX/40 FreeBSD 
> machine as the server on my 56K network (about 10% used imcoming, 2% 
> outgoing usage right now normally)..

Our servers are P100s and above connected directly to the 'Net via ethernet to 
FDDI to dual T3s.