From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Mar 24 12:56:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from avalon.dpc.com (avalon.dpc.com [192.101.159.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1045F150F5 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:56:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gstrock@dpc.com) Received: by avalon.dpc.com; id MAA21649; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:55:59 -0800 Received: from gate.dpc.com(10.30.0.166) by avalon.dpc.com via smap (4.0a) id xma021516; Wed, 24 Mar 99 12:55:38 -0800 Received: from dpc.com (cog-dpceng.dpc.com [10.30.0.182]) by gate.dpc.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA20478; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:12:24 -0800 Received: by dpc.com; id MAA19381; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:29:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from skate.dpc.com(192.168.2.252) by cog.dpc.com via smap (4.0) id xma019370; Wed, 24 Mar 99 12:29:02 -0800 Received: from dpc.com (pike.dpc.com [192.168.2.52]) by skate.dpc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA06872; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:49:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36F9502C.9157A560@dpc.com> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:50:53 -0800 From: greg strockbine X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marty Poulin Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cable modems are Good Things. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Boy, you've sure been busy, didn't notice an ftp server in there anywhere :-) DSL is good too. I did a network install of FreeBSD over my DSL line, got transfer rates between 80-130 Kbytes/sec. greg s. Marty Poulin wrote: > Since I got my cable modem, I have had lots of chances to > experiment with some of the "cool" things in FreeBSD. > > So far, to date, I have done the following: > > - Set up a gateway / firewall to the internet. (lost many nights of sleep > over that one...) > > - got a "real" domain name for my machine on a friend's domain (I just > couldn't live with the mile-long "@home" domain name) > > - set up SMTP and POP3, got my very own MX record. (thanks in part to the > latest issue of "Daemon News") > > - Set up a simple DNS server > > Now if I can get my hands on another pc with some disk space, I will try > setting up an NNTP server - has anyone tried DNews for FreeBSD? I have > set it up at work on NT with no problems - hopefully the same will go > for the BSD version. > > Having a static IP opens up so many possibilities! I feel like a kid at > christmas! > > > ================== Quote of the Day ===================== > That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. > - Neil Armstrong > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message