From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 3 09:29:36 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA01793 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 09:29:36 -0700 Received: from monge.brunel.ac.uk (pp@monge.brunel.ac.uk [134.83.72.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA01769 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 09:29:32 -0700 Received: from ccws-37.brunel.ac.uk by monge.brunel.ac.uk with SMTP (PP) id <14157-0@monge.brunel.ac.uk>; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 13:32:26 +0100 From: Nik Clayton Message-Id: <1247.9506031232@ccws-37.brunel.ac.uk> Subject: FreeBSD, Macs, ISDN, PPP, pop3... To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 13:32:23 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1337 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk How do, Company I'm currently working for has an internal Mac network using Etherlink to keep everything sweet. They use a few modems with MacTCP and MacPPP to dial up to an Internet provider, run Netscape and the like, and get e-mail using Eudora. They want to get more involved on the 'net, to the tune of getting a permanent link (ISDN line) to an Internet Service Provider, and using some form of Unix box... My current plan is to take a PC with 16Mb+ main memory, 1Gb SCSI disk and put FreeBSD (2.OR or 2.0.5R) on it. Add in one ISDN card and one network card. As I understand it, the PC can then run a PPP client to connect to the ISP over the ISDN line. The PC can then also run a PPP server to allow the Macs to connect to it. All incoming e-mail will be stored on the PC, with the Macs using Pop3 to retrieve it. The PC will firewall off the rest of the company network from the Internet, and will proxy things like WWW requests. Anyone know how feasible this is using FreeBSD? Any gotchas that are going to jump up and bite me at some point in time? Is anyone doing anything similar at the moment? N =-[Opinion, n: See the above text for an example]=-=[Kibo #: e]-[RYRYRY]=-= =-[The Silly Sod Society: To perfect and to swerve]=-[beable]-=[TP U BG]=-= Finagle's Creed: Science is true. Don't be misled by facts.