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Date:      Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:03:12 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Paul Dekkers <psd@cgu.nl>
To:        Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: replace linux by freebsd?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980707140023.18577B-100000@chippie.cgu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980705122140.28418A-100000@java.dpcsys.com>

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On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Dan Busarow wrote:

| On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Paul Dekkers wrote:
| > Device	Type	Bus	Interrupt	IO
| > eth0	3c509	ISA	11		0x320
| > eth1	ne2000	PCI	12		0x6200
| > eth2	ne2000	ISA	7		0x300
| > eth3	ne2000	PCI	9		0x6000	(recently replaced)
| > eth4	ne2000	PCI	10		0x6100
| > eth5	ne2000	ISA	5		0x340
| 
| > Is this at all possible under FreeBSD? And with my current CD-set, 2.2.1,
| > can I still use all of these cards, and route between them, and do natd
| > for all of the networks via eth0 (for about 50 clients max at a time I 
| > think)...
| 
| The most I've used is 4 nics but there shouldn't be any problem
| with the above.  I have one machine routing a combination of RFC1918

I was just wondering if the 3com nic would work...
I still use 2.2.1 you know... (maybe guy an upgrade???)

| address space and public space for about 20 sw developers.  Oh, it's
| also acting as a firewall permitting only established TCP connections
| incoming.  The client has a T1 connection and everyone is really happy 

did you use the standard firewall rules for this?

| with the system's performance.  It is a P166 with 32meg but that is
| probably overkill.

did you use natd? were there any other services working on the machine?

| > By the way, the machine is a pentium-60, with 16 Mb's of memory (It was
| > running fine for a year of two with slackware 3.1, and bootpd, but since
| > the network card went defect, the problems kept coming... and never went
| > away... (can there be some hardware failure?))
| 
| Going from stable for two years to daily reboots does suggest a
| hardware problem :)  Did you take a power hit?

I have a new powerr supply, is that what you mean?
I also replaces one of the network cards. Can it cause crashes like these?

By the way: please send any replies as a cc to me, because I'm not
subscribed tot the list anymore (forgot to tell you that when I sent my
last mail...)

Paul

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Paul Dekkers 
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