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to: andrew clarke
from: Russell Tiedt
date: 2003-01-04 14:58:22
subject: Ping

Hello andrew.

04 Jan 03 22:45, you wrote to me:

 RE>>> Had a quick look at FreeBSD some years ago. Think it was v2.0 or
 RE>>> something like that. I will surly try a newer verson soon.

 ac> 2.x is very old.  I ran 2.2.8-REL on a 486DX2/66/12Mb/1Gb as a
 ac> firewall/gateway for about 3 years ...

Got 2.x here, but I just installed it, with difficulty way back, and then 
went back to Linux.

 RE>>> Hmmm... think I have v4.1 on CD somewhere. The only problem is,
 RE>>> that I don't know where.. :).

 >> Then you are a wee bit ahead of me, I have 4.0 Release here.

 ac> ... these days I run 4.5-REL on a P133/32Mb/1Gb system.  It runs sshd,
 ac> apache-php, cucipop, fetchmail & binkd among other things, and does
 ac> Network Address Translation (NAT) for my LAN.  Very useful.  :-)

Well, if I could get a copy of 4.5 or 4.6 I might try installing it again, 
see what has improved. :-)

Russell

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