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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.inetnebr.com!news.enteract.com!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!mr.net!news.mr.net!scream.ing.com!news From: "Thomas Greenwalt" <tomg@trancer.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and NT Server Question Date: 31 Jan 1997 08:33:27 GMT Organization: Trancer Software Inc Lines: 33 Message-ID: <01bc0f1e$a8b68260$3bd393ce@ns.trancer.com> References: <5cka5i$sds@scream.ing.com> <5couta$37h$1@news.ziplink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.147.211.59 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34770 Mikhail Teterin <mi@rtfm.ziplink.net> wrote in article <5couta$37h$1@news.ziplink.net>... > Honorable Tom Greenwalt > wrote on 28 Jan (in article <5cka5i$sds@scream.ing.com>): > [...] > > Try traceroute-ing to and from the NT machine (it is called > tracert.exe on NT) and see where the route is lost. What I needed to do was add 'proxyarp' to my PPP options files. Many thanks to Kenneth Furge. > BTW, what's NT for? One can argue, it is good for `dummies' as a > workstation (I disagree, though), but _server_?? What is it doing, > that your FreeBSD boxes can not do? > I probably wouldn't use NT Workstation for much of anything. Right now NT Server isn't doing anything that I can't do on FreeBSD except for running an evaluation copy of Cold Fusion. The main reason for putting NT online is that most of my clients use NT Servers in their networks so I feel I better have a working knowledge of NT as well. Generally though I've noticed that most commercial products don't get ported to FreeBSD or Linux. Real Audio Server is exception to this and I applaud them for that, mainly by having bought a copy for one of my FreeBSD systems. One vendor told me last year that they don't port to the 'free' platforms because they felt that if people weren't willing to spend 'real' money on a OS, then they wouldn't spend 'real' money on thier product either. Most of my clients don't trust free stuff either.