From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 23 13: 8:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lmta01.melange.net (mx.melange.net [212.59.199.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DC7F37B422 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 13:08:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcrdsa@dsa.es) Received: from ssmtp01.melange.isp ([192.168.197.182]) by lmta01.melange.net (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4NK85n26144 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 22:08:05 +0200 Received: from dsa00 ([212.163.133.203]) by ssmtp01.melange.isp (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GDT19G02.O1H for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 22:08:04 +0200 Message-ID: <001301c0e3cd$969a4f70$9b40a8c0@DSA> From: "DSA-JCR" To: Subject: Newbie to FreeBSD questions about configuring networks and ISDN Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 21:15:48 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all: FIRST; I would like to say that I like very much the FreeBSD O.S. Well done, to all that make it possible. Well, some questions: I am new to FreeBSD, not to Unix (well in the SCO Xenix times, in a remote galaxy ....) and I am developper of Windows Solutions. Now on, I am configuring a CyberCafe and I choose FreeBSD to be the server OS and like a gateway to the Internet for the Windows ME network. I would like to have the following configuration and I would like to know if it is possible. The server is P III 1Ghz 256Mb 30Gb It will have 2 net cards, one for incoming data from the local net and another to go out to the NET through a ADSL. Technical Questions: - I think that FreeBSD can work with this conf., isn't it? - How can I tell the OS that I have 2 net cards?, When I install it only sees one, Why ? Maybe the card manufacturer ? Is a Ovislink (but the chip is a Realtex => driver rl0). if not How can I install a second nic ? - Is better and safe to have 3Com nics? - And what about the 3Com 3C982-TXM OfficeeNet 10/100 with TWO RJ-45 ?, Can it works fine in FReeBSD? - In the case that the ADSL fails, I have an external ISDN router, I need a Third nic for this ? - What about if I use an internal ISDN card ? better than ISDN router ? - And if I want to do some "on-demand" conection, I mean if the ADSL doesn't work, automatically goes to IDSN and put it to work and connect by this card/router. When the ADSL is ok again leaves the ISDN. Can this be done ? How ? - If a card manufacturer has drivers for Linux, Can I install and use them under FreeBSD ? - If I want to install the last version of GNOME, for example, in the GNOME web there is no port to FreeBSD, what must I do ? Another type of questions : - Is there anyone out there, with a config like this for a cybercafe working ? What is your experience ? - Are there games that can be served in a FreeBSD server and played in Windows ? (I don't know very much about games, I only program, and program, and program, .....) ;o] - I would like to give e-mails accounts to the users, Can I do with FreeBSD (I suppose yes), which program may I use ? (there are so many) - For my local net, I must give IP numbers compliant to RFC 1918, isn't ? NO more today, tomorrow more, ;o] Thanks´a lot in advance Juan Coruņa Rodriguez Desarrollo de Software Atlantico SL www.dsa.es To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message