two questions

[Chris Janicki]

My Mediaone connection uses DHCP to assign IPs.  You're pretty limited 
unless you have some business grade service I don't know of.  If it is 
DHCP, your setup will work, but only as long as you don't reconnect to 
retrieve a random IP/host address.  And I wouldn't be surprised if 
Mediaone forces reconnections every 24 hours or so, just to prevent this 
type of usage.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 4/3/01, 10:11:49 PM, "oz" <xorgen at mediaone.net> wrote regarding two 
questions:


> Hello,
>       1.) I recently got my hands on a box that I would like to install 
FreeBSD
> and Solaris 8 on.  Can anyone point me to a how-to on the easiest/best 
way
> to go about this? For example, which OS should I install first? What boot
> loader should I be using?

>       2.) I am connected to the internet with Mediaone.  I have a sparc 
station2
> on my LAN that just sits there wasting electricity.  I would like to turn
> this box into a mail/squid/dns/webserver just to get some sys admin 
practice
> other than trying to secure my boxes.  Has anyone ever set up a server 
like
> this off their mediaone cable connection?  I already have another box set 
up
> with Apache, but can this be done for mail?  So people would be able to
> access http://whatever.ne.mediaone.net, and also be able to email
> oz at whatever.ne.mediaone.net?

> Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

> .:oz:.



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