CD-ROM saga (a funny story) After much delay, for what reason, I don’t know, I finally dropped into Quay Computers and bought a CD-ROM. Not a flash one, just an old 24x speed which had a 30 day warranty. A decent deal for NZ$95. I planned to install it that night, but something else […]
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natd Network Address Translation (IP masquerading, IP aliasing) Please note: if you are running PPP, then you don’t want natd. PPP has aliasing built in. Unfortunately, I’ve never used PPP, so I suggest you follow the Pedantic PPP Primer of the FreeBSD Handbook or perhaps just see the man pages for information on -alias. That
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The installation This page describes my first week of FreeBSD and how I blustered my way around the operating system. As mentioned in the introduction, I was given an old 486 machine by a friend. When I got it home, I had a hard time figuring out how to get FreeBSD installed. My home subnet
How I found FreeBSD I was introduced to FreeBSD by Jay Montilla. Jay and I had worked together at Synergy. As long as I’ve known him, he’s been a networks person. He left Synergy to work full time for a government agency. Eventually, they hired me as a consultant to do some PowerBuilder work.
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Why I wanted FreeBSD before I knew it existed Why did I want FreeBSD? Well, when I first discovered I wanted FreeBSD, I’d never even heard of it before. Late in 1997, I decided it was time to replace my 486 box with a Pentium. The increase in speed was impressive. Around January 1998, I
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