Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 07:29:03 +0800 (HKT) From: John Beukema <john@gateway.net.hk> To: Paul Howard Gray <phgray@tcjcnelrc.edu> Cc: bsdi-users@hidden-foes.gateway.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Internet gateway references Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.951217071412.12444B-100000@gateway.net.hk> In-Reply-To: <199512151939.NAA05613@fastlane.net>
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BSD/OS is good, stable and covers the basics. They have a support service (which hovever seems to spend much of its bandwidth on whether your maintenance contract has been paid, what the invoice number was etc). IMHO its development is static and there are relatively few new drivers. I have switched to FreeBSD. Aside from price, I have found having full source, and **friendly** help from really knowledgable developers, makes the difference. FreeBSD 2.1.0 is very stable and performs very well and it has a great installation proceedure. jbeukema On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, Paul Howard Gray wrote: > I am working with a team assigned to get an Internet host up and running > that will ultimately support multiple LANs on each of 5 campuses running a > variety of O\S including NetWare and NT and others. Initially we will be > supporting three interconnected LANs on one campus with dial-up access from > others. Budget limitations have our hardware choices limited to Intel > boxes, probably Pentium. Our connection will be T1 through Larscom CSU\DSU's > and Cisco routers. We expect to begin serving 50+ users with maybe as many > as 30 concurrent. Eventually we will serve several hundred. > > None of those involved have any major UNIX background (I have operated a > small Linux-based host with considerable help from my friend the guru). > > Everything I have read about BSDI's Internet Gateway product makes it sound > like the ideal solution at least for the initial period. I would very much > like to hear from anyone who has a similar operation. We are looking at this > as a "general purpose" host - DNS, mail, gopher and www - not just a web > server. > > There is some time pressure on this decision so any info anyone could > provide will be welcome. > Paul H. Gray > Learning Resources Manager *VOICE (817)788-6623 > TCJC NE LRC *FAX (817)788-6275 > 828 Harwood Road *E-Mail phgray@tcjcnelrc.edu > Hurst, Texas 76054 > >
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