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From: jkh@morse.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an IP router
Date: 07 Mar 1994 16:51:32 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland
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In-reply-to: stever@csuohio.edu's message of Mon, 7 Mar 1994 05:39:56 GMT

In article <1994Mar7.053956.27282@news.csuohio.edu> stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) writes:
	   I expect someone to pipe up that this is a bad, evil, nasty,
   RFC breaking thing to do as BSD boxes are not supposed to be used as
   routers.  But what the heigh. ;)

Not at all!  I know a number of FreeBSD boxes being used as routers!
They work very well if you don't need to support things like ISDN.
The person having SLIP trouble should send me email detailing his
problems - I use SLIP every day, and as both client and server, so
it should be easy enough to sort him out (but I don't get to read news
very often so he should use email).

				Jordan