From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 7 08:30:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA14288 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:30:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA14269 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:30:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id IAA09411; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:30:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:30:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Paul Dekkers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: replace linux by freebsd? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Paul Dekkers wrote: > I was just wondering if the 3com nic would work... > I still use 2.2.1 you know... (maybe guy an upgrade???) Which one? > | 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? Started with the simple rules and fiddled with them a bit. > | 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? Yep, running natd to get that private address space onto the net. It runs sendmail and bind. Think that's about it for services. > 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? No, was there an electrical storm that could have sent a surge into the computer? Asked since you needed to replace the PS and NIC at the same time. I'd be suspect of the mother board and CPU. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message