From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 5 23:50:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D5114CEC for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 23:50:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA61440; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 01:50:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 01:50:06 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Francisco Reyes Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Chat software for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19990606015006.A60982@dan.emsphone.com> References: <199906060435.AAA10017@arutam.inch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <199906060435.AAA10017@arutam.inch.com>; from "Francisco Reyes" on Sun Jun 6 00:36:12 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 06), Francisco Reyes said: > I just checked the ports and did not see any chat servers for FreeBSD. > > It can be commercial. > > For a sample of what I am looking for see www.ichat.com That software > seems to do what I want, but it is extremly expensive even in the > entry level. For that type of money I would only do it ($500/50 > users) if it was for a business purpose/venture not just to have a > chat system for friends. Try /usr/ports/net/irc ; at one point irc.blackened.com (running FreeBSD) exceeded 8000 clients. I don't know what the current record is, or what platform it's running. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphobne.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message