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Date:      Mon, 3 Nov 1997 23:18:23 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Second Wire <jkozma@awod.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD questions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971103231633.21434B-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971103173031.26319B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Doug White wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Second Wire wrote:
> 
> > Can I run FreeBSD on any machine that will run Windows 95?  I have an AMD
> > K5-133 CPU with 24 MB RAM and a 1.0 GB hard disk.
> 
> Pretty much.  The individual device support can get touchy.  
God yes.  I just had the unfortunate experience of setting up FreeBSD on a
486 sx/33 with 12 megs of RAM, and 8 megs of it was on a RAMpAT card on
the ISA bus.  It also has a 170 meg HDD.   WOW, was X slow; 12 minutes to
start the server....
K5-133 with 24 megs will work just fine.

> 
> > Are there any proxy servers for FreeBSD, like WinGate for Windows 3.1 and
> > 95, that will allow more than one machine to access the Internet over a
> > single modem?
> 
> FreeBSD supplies this.  it's a multitasking OS, it had better be able to
> gate multiple connections. 
I think we're talking proxy, not just gateing.
Look into squid.

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