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From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson)
Subject: Re: SCO rebellion?
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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