From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 07:19:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA13716 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 07:19:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from tpone.telepac.pt (tpone.telepac.pt [194.65.3.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA13709 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 07:18:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.telepac.pt (webpac.telepac.pt [194.65.3.34]) by tpone.telepac.pt (8.6.12/1.0) with ESMTP id QAA02402 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 16:18:02 GMT Received: from m-p (lis6_p15.telepac.pt [194.65.2.207]) by mail.telepac.pt (8.6.12/0.0) with SMTP id QAA18171 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 16:17:25 GMT Message-ID: <313EFE80.5D02@telepac.pt> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 16:19:28 +0100 From: "Rui A. Castro" Organization: AQUA DATA Informática X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Using FreeBSD on a very low cost Inter/Intranet project X-URL: http://www.pt.freebsd.org/mailto.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi to all at FreeBSD.org. After 7 years of working and studying the DOS/Win/Intel combo and avoiding Unix at all cost, I think that I have come to the point where there is not much more to learn or to be challenged by. So I decided to start studying and using something that I had refused for all this time - Unix. Being kind of new at it and at very technical internetworking technologies and communications I get lost some times. That's where FreeBSD comes on scene. I've read on a document I downloaded from your site, that one can use FreeBSD, a pre-historical i386 computer and a COMM board to build a low cost router. Now this is where things get more complicated. I have built a Netware 3.11 network at the office and I need to know the following: 1 - I think I can use FreeBSD to establish a Internet server. Am I right? 2 - Can I then connect my NW3.11 network to the FreeBSD Internet Gateway so I can use it in dual mode (Internet/Intranet)? 3 - Can I use a FreeBSD system to provide dial-up access to my WWW site (multi-line, multi-modem)? Any and all help would be appreciated, as would some book tips on these subjects. Thanks for the time and attention. Best Regards Rui A. aquadata@telepac.pt