From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 12 03:11:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA01931 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 03:11:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ccr.ntu.ac.uk (ccr.ntu.ac.uk [152.71.25.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA01748 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 03:10:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim.parkinson@ccr.ntu.ac.uk) Received: from stimpy (152.71.25.146) by ccr.ntu.ac.uk (Rockliffe SMTPRA 1.2.2) with SMTP id ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 10:11:10 +0000 From: "Tim Parkinson" To: Subject: What do people on the list use FreeBSD for? Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:11:04 +0100 Message-ID: <000b01bd95ea$68bf5f20$92194798@stimpy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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