Re: FreeBSD workstation on Windows network?

In article <e43hkr02lqq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Bruce Burden <brucegb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
someboady@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
: I have a home network w/ DSL and a wireless router. (Linksys) My router
: performs DHCP for the network. I have 4 windows based PC's hooked up, 2 on
: a wire, 2 on wireless. 1 is XP Pro, and the rest are home editions.
:
: I have another Pentium III machine that I would like to setup w/ FreeBSD.
:
My firewall is currently 2x800MHz PIIIs running FBSD 6.1. It
is connected to a cable modem and does DHCP. The workstation behind
it has all of the important info on it, and is where this post was
created.
:
: Perhaps I could use the FreeBSD machine to make my home network more secure.
:
Dunno about that. Your router probably does a decent job at
that.
:
: Maybe I could use it as a web server. (Get a static IP from the phone
: company and my son and I could work on this project together)
:
Gack to the phone line, although the DHCP could present some
problems.
:
: To be frank, when I look at the directories on freebsd frp sites, I remember
: those those things, but not very well :)
: I'm sure I could pick it up again (Fast if it was an NCR Tower), but on a
: PC? Technology has sorta passed me by here.
:
You do realize that FBSD is not based on SYSV, yes? It is based
on BSD, so there are some significant differences on how things are
done. If you want to play SYSV again, you could consider Slowaris
from SUN. The i386 version is finally free, and is definitely SYSV.
Then you have to deal with the crap SUN provides to make it "better"...

In his post the OP said it has been since about 1990 when he last
ran Unix and it was on an NCR tower. At that point we don't know
if it was a fairly new NCR or an older one. I've done some work
on NCR's in that era and they were often System III or earlier, and
in that respect they were more like BSD than Sys V.

So IOW we don't know if he's SysV or System III oriented. If the
latter the BSD should be quite comforatable.

And Solaris is definately different than other SysVs out there.

Bill

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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