From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 21 12:46:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA06602 for current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 12:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ox.ismi.net (root@ox.ismi.net [206.31.56.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA06557; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 12:46:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aerosmith.dyn.ml.org (mrr@pm2-27.ismi.net [206.31.56.67]) by ox.ismi.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA03559; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:42:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:38:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael R. Rudel" To: Warner Losh cc: Andreas Klemm , Michael Smith , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <19970719221428.10703@gtn.com> Andreas Klemm writes: > : Is FreeBSD turing PC's into workstations or is it only used > : for lamer PC hardware ?! > > I have a whole pile of old PC parts that I'm using to build multiple > routers. FreeBSD is making all of this possible. I don't know if I'm > a typical case, but I do know what has frustrated me with this > interprise to date. This pile of PC parts are free, and I'm doing > this in time I'd otherwise not be billing, and I don't have a lot of > cash to buy an extra ethernet card (x 5) and an extra SCSI controller > (x 5) and bunch of other things that people seem to tell me are cheap > enough to buy. FreeBSD works really well on these machines. > > My biggest complaint is the configuration of ethernet devices. It > would be nice if there were some easier way to do this automatically. > > Warner > Never seen it, but I've heard one or two flavors of Linux have a graphical ifconfig... This sounds right up jkh or phk's isle, doesn't it? They could do something that will (very) niftily save it to /etc/rc.conf or some such thing.. Heck, maybe even right a graphical /etc/rc.conf editor. ;) -- Michael R. Rudel -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- mrr@aerosmith.dyn.ml.org FreeBSD aerosmith.dyn.ml.org 3.0-CURRENT PGP Key Block: finger mrrpgp@aerosmith.dyn.ml.org