Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 21:15:35 -0500 From: Jeffrey Dunitz <orpheus@lemieux.hockey.net> To: Darren Martin <darren@premier1.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: As is FreeBSD! Message-ID: <19980923211535.A22640@lemieux.hockey.net> In-Reply-To: <000801bde714$e7d1f220$02000003@pavilion>; from Darren Martin on Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 10:09:12AM -0700 References: <000801bde714$e7d1f220$02000003@pavilion>
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On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 10:09:12AM -0700, Darren Martin said something like: > Please, 78 characters per line. It's not just a good idea, it's...er wait. :) > > I am becoming an internet service provider, and am looking for >an all-in-one package that will handle all the standard internet >serviced(HTTP, FTP, USENET,POP,SMTP)and even the selling dial-up internet >access accounts to customers. I am also setting up a RealVideo Server >and am wondering if there is any FreeBSD application that handles that >as well. If you're going to be an ISP, i suggest you rethink the idea of having your FreeBSD box be your dialup server. While it's true that FreeBSD can handle this, I can tell you from experience that it really really sucks to do it that way. Save yourself the hassle up front and get something like one of those Cisco things that has the modems built in, or one of the USRobotics TotalControl deals. More expensive up front, but an order of magnitude more reliable than individual modems, no matter what you have them connected to. > What kind of hardware is most compatible with FreeBSD(CSU/DSU, >Routers, etc). I am getting an ADSL line soon for my access company. We >are also doing business web hosting and I am wondering about on-line >commerce, and multiple domain-names. As far as network hardware, don't buy garbage, and you should be fine. There isn't really much of a compatibility issue there at all--any good brand of router doesn't care if there's a freebsd box, an NT box, a Sun, an SGI or whatever behind it. Packets is packets. My personal opinion is go with ADC/Kentrox or BAT CSUs, Cisco routers, Lantronix, SVEC, or Allied Telesyn hubs, and, for the love of crap, get decent cat5 cables made by someone good, like Belden or Anixter. Follow my advice, and I can pretty much guarantee you a network that works. Can't tell you anything about RealVideo. I don't know anything about it. There's probably server software for FreeBSD, if it's not just handled by Apache or whatever web server you want to use. > Also, and this is a biggie...Can I >install it alongside other operating systems so I can choose a dual-boot >option. I have windows 98, and windows NT(for Studio Max, and other >Graphic/Multimedia creation) and I would like to be able to use them >too. I hope it doesn't reformat any part of my hard-drive on installation! yes, you have to repartition. There are tools that will let you do this without having to completely reinstall your other OSes. However, you can't very well be providing net services on your machine and then say "oh, I gotta reboot now, because I have to edit these images...". You need several boxes anyway, so what's the point? You're going to want one box as a home directory and/or web server, one as a primary DNS, one as a secondary DNS, and a mailserver (you can use the DNS server as a mail machine, I guess. > How does it compare to Linux as far as features, speed, and ease of use? FreeBSD seems about as fast as linux. From a user perspective, there's not much difference; the /proc file system in linux has more stuff in it, and the general file system layout is a little different. Ease of use is about the same. Almost all the software you'd find as RedHat RPMs are available as tarball packages for FreeBSD. The big area where you'll notice differences between linux and FreeBSD is the programming environment. FreeBSD is a traditional BSD system, linux is a SysV-ish type system with lots of it's own weird stuff tossed in. It could be said that FreeBSD is more "standard"--if that means anything anyway. > If you could recommend any FreeBSD applications that would help me >do any or all of the things I have listed(If it's not already capable >of them out "out of the box!" Use sendmail (standard, well-known) or qmail (nonstandard, more secure, but not as well known as sendmail) for SMTP service. Qpopper or CUCIpop for POP3, inn or cnews for NNTP service, and apache for HTTP service. Pretty much any other network service you need comes with the system. The ones I just mentioned either are installed by default or are free packages. > Any help you could give me with these >questions would be greatly appreciated. Hope that helps. > Thank You, > Darren. > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jeffrey Dunitz | Current Job: | orpheus@avalon.net BOFH Emeritus, Avalon Networks | Network Engineer | Iowa City, IA http://www.avalon.net/~orpheus | EXi Corporation | (319) 339-8268 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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