Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 20:15:07 -0300 (EST) From: "Lenzi, Sergio" <lenzi@cwbone.bsi.com.br> To: "Rui A. Castro" <aquadata@telepac.pt> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD on a very low cost Inter/Intranet project Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960307200339.7155A-100000@lenzi> In-Reply-To: <313EFE80.5D02@telepac.pt>
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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,
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