Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:00:20 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Workman <sworkman@nidlink.com> To: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Migration to FreeBSD Message-ID: <XFMail.990127200020.sworkman@nidlink.com>
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I currently work for a company that has a small lan( 15 machines total ) and we are adding a T1 line in a month or so. I proposed to my boss that we should use FreeBSD and NATd allong with a kernel built with IP forwarding as our gateway to the internet accross the T1. The machine we are currently using as a gateway is our main file server (not my choice) it is a PII 400Mhz with 128 MB ram and a 9.1GB UW SCSI 3 drive running NT 4.0. My boss is foolishly considering running our current file services on this machine as well as a web server and a SMTP server for our site and a few others that we are going to host on site. This is the same machine that all of our sensitive company information is on. I am looking for advice on how to approach him with the option of FreeBSD. He loves M$ and was getting ready to dump 1000 on MS Proxy 2.0 when I stopped him and pointed him toward the aVirt Gateway server.. I have mentioned to him, every time we add a new machine or other component to our network, that FreeBSD could do it better and without client license issues or costs. He just looks at me and says "Isn't that what you run at home?" so I say yes, and tell hime it is awesome and less crash prone than NT and if it does crash it is almost always something the Administrator messed up, or a first time user.. I really want to implement FreeBSD in our system not only as our gateway but also as our networks file servers.. Any advice will be greatly appreciated... Shawn Workman ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Shawn Workman <sworkman@nidlink.com> Date: 27-Jan-99 Time: 19:50:59 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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