From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 18:02:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA27059 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:02:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA27044 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:02:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA04661; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:36:50 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601180206.MAA04661@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Single 2.1 box for multiple tasks To: scott@patton.com (Scott Whittle) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:36:49 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199601172305.SAA09028@emma.patton.com> from "Scott Whittle" at Jan 17, 96 06:05:38 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Scott Whittle stands accused of saying: > Question: I have been roped (semi-willing) into setting up a mail > host for a financial institution who are trying to get into the > i-net thing. Is it possible to use a single 2.1-Stable machine for > a router/gateway/nameserver/pop3 ? Yup. Lots of people doing this. > Off the top of my head I'm thing something like this with a PPP link? > > ====56K DDS line from ISP====[DSU/CSU]---Async 57.6 out using PPP---[FREEBSD > Box] Use 115k to the BSD box, providing the DSU/CSU does flowcontrol properly. > Out of the FREEBSD Box using Ethernet to PC's on everyone's desks. > The main idea is to get the server on site so email will flow within > the org as well as outside of the org. They already have their > domain name with InterNic. Any suggestions? Do it! > Scott Whittle email: scott@patton.com -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[