Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:11:04 +0100 From: "Tim Parkinson" <tim.parkinson@ccr.ntu.ac.uk> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: What do people on the list use FreeBSD for? Message-ID: <000b01bd95ea$68bf5f20$92194798@stimpy>
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I'm curious as to what people are using their FreeBSD machines for. I know some people who are complete UN*X nutcases, yet when asked, why they use it they can't answer. I was just thinking about specific applications that people had. Personally, I have a FreeBSD system that is being used as a gateway for our internal Lan at home through a cable modem, the modem doesn't work properly at the moment :( But thats the point of trials. We also run that box as an e-mail/mud/web server, which eventually will be accessible at a decent speed to the Internet as a whole. The LAN it is serving is composed of Win95 clients with one NetBSD/SPARC machine and a Linux box. It will also soon have a cluster of 386's running Linux and the Beowulf distributed processing system. I have found that setting up the FreeBSD machine has been an absolute doddle. FreeBSD is a very logical OS and although I have a few years UN*X experience (as a user of SunOS and a little Linux, not admin), I thought it would be a little harder to set up. NATD (Network Address Translation Daemon) took about 5 minutes to set up, with a little extra time to recompile a custom kernel. The man page on NATD is superb, with lots of examples on how to configure it. Cheers, ---------------------------------------------- Tim Parkinson -Teaching Company Associate Nottingham Trent University & Clerical Gas Ltd Tel: 0115 9783677 Fax: 0115 9706977 tim.parkinson@ccr.ntu.ac.uk tim@gubbins.ml.org -Home To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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