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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!maple.enet.net!pandora.enet.net!pandora.enet.net!not-for-mail From: eric@pandora.enet.net (Eric J. Schwertfeger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Looking for advice on FreeBSD WWW server Date: 19 Sep 1995 20:12:43 -0700 Organization: Pandora (Private unix system) Lines: 33 Message-ID: <43o0rb$8sq@pandora.enet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pandora.enet.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 941216BETA PL0] Bear with me, I run Linux at home (for purely historical reasons), and have never set up a WWW server. At work, however, when asked what OS to use for a router/firewall/WWW server, I suggested FreeBSD first, Linux if I can't do what I want to do. Basically, I'm looking to set up a machine as a router and firewall between two internal nets, and a third ethernet network with a T1 connection, and using this as a WWW server would also be nice. The WWW server would need to be (forgot the term, multi-host?), so that we can have multiple WWW pages, all looking like a domain based WWW page. So, I guess the requirements are 1) Multi-IP address capable, in a manner that the web server can tell what the remote wants. 2) The ability to run 3 NE2000 cards 3) The ability to use an AHA2842 SCSI card (because we already have it). 4) The ability to to function as a selective proxy firewall. There is one critical piece of software that isn't proxy-aware (a 3270 emulator interface to our production software). Now, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. The server will be a 486DX2-66 with 32 Meg of Ram and an AHA2842. The only use for this machine is what is discussed here, there will be no other work going on on this machine. How capable will this be? Our provider has pushed us towards a pentium based NT machine or a Sun Netserver for this. I know it will do for the time, but what would it take to keep the T1 link fairly saturated? (It'll take time, and we may never reach that point, but it would be nice to know if we need to start saving up now).