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Date:      Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:55:26 -0500
From:      Brian Adkins <brian@lojic.com>
To:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RC5-64 Contest
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990322194631.00b19d10@mailbox.iwaynet.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903221831120.6239-100000@duey.wolves.k12.mo .us>
References:  <xzpogll8lp9.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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At 06:42 PM 3/22/99 -0600, Chris Dillon wrote:
>Err, I'm coming into this a bit late, but if someone has an easy way
>to create a bootable floppy with the fxp and ed NIC drivers, a dhcp
>client (optional, but highly preferred), and the rc5des client, I have
>about 40 PII-266's and 30 P133s I could run it on for about 15 hours a
>day, and 48 hours on weekends.  Think that would bring Team FreeBSD up
>a notch or two? :-)

Most definitely!!

>I could also just fudge and run a Win95 version of the client in the
>background all day on even more workstations than that (the users
>wouldn't be any wiser, so long as it only worked during idle time).

I don't see a problem with that - go ahead and run it on the Windows boxes
too - as long as a FreeBSD user is responsible for running the clients, it
seems ok to me :)

It seems to work fine in the background on Windows boxes - it can be
configured to run hidden.



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