From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 13 11:27:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA10563 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 11:27:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA10557 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 11:27:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA08699; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 11:26:50 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606131826.LAA08699@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Changing from Linux 1.2.8 to FreeBSD 2.x To: gmarco@masternet.it (Gianmarco Giovannelli) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 11:26:50 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <31C08FA1.41C67EA6@masternet.it> from "Gianmarco Giovannelli" at Jun 13, 96 10:01:05 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > A friends of mine is an ISP and I help him doing system administration > on his server. Now he is running Linux, but I'd like to install Freebsd. > > What I am asking myself is if FreeBSD will find some difficulties to > coexists with our current enviroment ... > > I.e. Will some incompabilities exist with the terminal server > (Corollary) we are using ? And with the router Cisco ? If the terminal server or CISCO is old, it will not correctly handle TCP extensions. If this happens, you will need to turn them off in the /etc/sysconfig file. > The passwd file will not be a problem , they have few users so they can > add them again manually.... :-) There is a perl script for converting the passwords in the FAQ. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.