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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.mindlink.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3 Questions - Digiboard / PCI / Security Date: 15 Jul 1995 03:35:30 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3u7d22$bbm@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3u5qcv$c78@fitzherbert.pavilion.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3u5qcv$c78@fitzherbert.pavilion.co.uk>, Jay Daley <jay@pavilion.co.uk> wrote: >Sorry if this is a silly question but I could not find the answer in the FAQs. >Does FreeBSD support Digiboard serial cards (PCx/e and PCx/i) ? There is some ALPHA support that's just gone in - send mail to hackers@freebsd.org if you want to be a tester. >Another silly question but I presume FreeBSD supports PCI PCs ? It does, and rather well in fact. >And finally can I get free utilities to use FreeBSD as a firewall that are >as good as commercial utilities (or nearly as good as) ?. That's a difficult question to answer since I don't know how good all the commercial utilities are! :-) However, I can say that we use the the firewall code in FreeBSD ourselves and it appears to do a fine job of it. Jordan