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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: SCO rebellion? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4cuu3h$et4@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960108203155.19152A-100000@world.evansville.net> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 23:35:13 GMT Lines: 41 In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960108203155.19152A-100000@world.evansville.net>, Brian Fahrlander <kilroy@evansville.net> wrote: > > Now I'm starting an ISP. A very _small_ ISP. The webservice portion >is being run on a more expensive machine, and I'm handling the Email by >way of SCO and it's UUCP. > > Some pointed questions: > > 1. Doesn't BSD have UUCP? Taylor or HDB? (Please don't say both...) > FreeBSD has Taylor. Of course, Taylor can be set-up to act something like HDB, if you desire. > 2. Does it come with all the networking? > Yep, if you mean ip stuff. The NFS is a bit weak. On FreeBSD you'll get generally get very good performance. It comes with all of the daemons like named, routed... You need to install gated seperately -- but it is likely that you won't need it. The latest sendmail and named usually work almost right out of the box (if they haven't been ported by the time that you need them.) FreeBSD also has ip filtering. If you need to locally network machines together, it works well with 100BaseT DEC-chip ethernet cards in -current and -release, and the 100BaseT Intel ethernet cards work in -current (you will probably want to run -release though.) You can use many of the more common 10BaseT cards also. > 3. How about PPP connections? > Yep. I suggest subscribing to the FreeBSD mailing lists... >mail majordomo@freebsd.org >subscribe freebsd-questions and there are lots of people who will be willing/able to help. John Dyson dyson@freebsd.org