Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 11:18:58 +0100 (CET) From: FreeBSD mailing list <bsd@righi.dhs.org> To: Mike <mikey@kappaisle.com> Cc: Andy McConnell <amcconnell@acm.org>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cisco Ethernet WAN module? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001141118440.7355-100000@righi.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001131102130.32775-100000@greencreek.kappaisle.com>
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yes of course I Started it. I Can't understand why it does not work. Rick On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Mike wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Thank you for all your resourceful and prompt replies. > > Actually we run FreeBSD servers to serve web, DNS, mail and files (with > Samba), and they were servers I setup back then. I'm very grateful to > have deployed FreeBSD to perform all those tasks because we never had any > problem with them. > > On the networking side, we have been using Cisco products for a very long > time. The performance and reliability are just outstanding, so we tend > to stay with Cisco equipments for our network infrastructure. > > I've found a solution, and thank you all for your generous help! > > Sincerely, > > Mike > > ========================================== > On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Andy McConnell wrote: > > > Mike - > > > > If you are going for cost effective, and you're asking on the FreeBSD > > lists, your better bet is to go with a recylced Pentium with 2 ethernet > > cards, and run FreeBSD and Gated. Not only do you get the low cost for > > hardware, you get a free router, web site, DNS secondary, mail server, and > > anything else you want to customize. Not to mention a free firewall and > > natd (if you're into that sort of thing. :-) > > > > If this is a link between two offices, then you don't have to worry about > > the tech support for end users. So, if someone has some basic working > > knowledge of FreeBSD, your solution is the cost of two old machines. And > > chances are, someone in your company needs an upgrade - oh, what to do > > with that old PII-366 in the corner? :-) > > > > -Andy > > > > -- > > Andy McConnell amcconnell@acm.org > > > > "First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what > > can I say? I'm a night owl." > > - M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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