Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 07:37:34 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Mark Filipak <filipak@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Are you sure? Message-ID: <20020419043734.GG629@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <3CBF70D2.F5B33616@earthlink.net> References: <3CBF3231.9EB3E4A5@earthlink.net> <87hem84p9b.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> <3CBF5140.1AAB72B4@earthlink.net> <3CBF70D2.F5B33616@earthlink.net>
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On 2002-04-18 21:20, Mark Filipak wrote:
> Okay, Ken. I'm downloading the four ISO images now. I picked FTP site
> 2 because I like the number "2". I don't know where this FTP site is
> located, but I'm clipping along in four windows at a little over 20
> k-bytes/second/window -- 8 hours 'til liftoff.
Hello Mark,
Marvellous news!
> I need gateway + firewall + www server + mail + LAN server with 2
> ethernet connections. I was told by a professional programmer friend
> in Sillycon Valley (my home until last year) that he could not get
> this configuration up and running. His solution was GallantWEB. I
> guess my solution will have to be freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.
I don't know what GallantWEB is. I can't tell what can or can't be
done with it. But...
All this can be done with FreeBSD. Once you have the two network
interfaces up, you can configure it as a gateway with just one command
(as crazy as that might sound). You have a choise of two different
types of firewall to chose from, coming with the source of the
system's kernel. You can install your choise from a variety of web
servers (Apache, thttpd, etc). You have a very flexible, powerful and
customizable mail server installed in the base system; Sendmail. You
can easily replace it with some other mail server, with the most
popular choises being Qmail, Postfix, and Exim.
So, I guess, the answer is: "Yes, all this can be done".
Welcome to FreeBSD :)
PS: Can you try to wrap your messages to a more reasonable line-length,
say something between 70-75 characters?
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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