From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 15:15:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA04587 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:15:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwbone.bsi.com.br ([200.250.250.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA04520 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:15:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from lenzi ([200.247.248.103]) by cwbone.bsi.com.br (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA23850; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 20:14:15 GMT Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 20:15:07 -0300 (EST) From: "Lenzi, Sergio" X-Sender: lenzi@lenzi To: "Rui A. Castro" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD on a very low cost Inter/Intranet project In-Reply-To: <313EFE80.5D02@telepac.pt> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Rui A. Castro wrote: > 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. Be wellcome friend. That's a new world. You'll see. > > 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? Yes a powerfull one. > > 2 - Can I then connect my NW3.11 network to the FreeBSD Internet > Gateway so I can use it in dual mode (Internet/Intranet)? Yes in an easy way. It's all in the CD. > > 3 - Can I use a FreeBSD system to provide dial-up access to my > WWW site (multi-line, multi-modem)? Yes, I have build several internet providers using FreeBSD and a dumb serial board. > > Any and all help would be appreciated, as would some book tips on these > subjects. > You can count on me. or as you say: Pode contar conosco, tem gente boa aqui no Brazil, tem o Pedro do Instituto de Quimica que e' um cara bom pacas. Um abraco,