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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional-Based Extension//EN" [
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/internet.sgml,v 1.37 2006/09/23 07:24:15 joel Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/internet.sgml,v 1.38 2007/02/16 08:12:34 dds Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "About FreeBSD's Internetworking">
<!ENTITY % navinclude.about "INCLUDE">
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<p>FreeBSD includes what many consider the <i>reference</i>
implementation for TCP/IP software, the 4.4 BSD TCP/IP protocol stack,
thereby making it ideal for network applications and the Internet.</p>
thereby making it ideal for network applications and the Internet.
FreeBSD 7.0 also includes the reference implementation of SCTP, thus
making it an ideal platform for telephony and other data streaming
applications.</p>
<h2>FreeBSD supports standard TCP/IP
protocols.</h2>
<h2>FreeBSD supports all standard TCP/IP protocols.</h2>
<p>Like most &unix; systems, the FreeBSD operating system enables you
to</p>
<ul>
<li>Serve static and dynamic web content over HTTP</li>
<li>Share filesystems with NFS</li>
<li>Distribute network information with NIS</li>
<li>Support remote logins</li>
<li>Handle and provide email services over SMTP, IMAP and POP3</li>
<li>Support remote logins over SSH and rsh</li>
<li>Do remote SNMP configuration and management</li>
<li>Serve files with FTP</li>
<li>Resolve Internet hostnames with DNS/BIND</li>
<li>Route packets between multiple interfaces, including PPP and SLIP
lines</li>
<li>Use IP Multicast services (the MBONE)</li>
<li>Provide services over IPv6</li>
</ul>
<p>FreeBSD lets you to turn a PC&nbsp;into a World Wide Web server or
<p>FreeBSD lets you to turn a PC&nbsp;into a World Wide Web server,
mail server or an
Usenet news relay with included software. Using the included SAMBA
software you can even share filesystems or printers with your Microsoft&reg;
Windows&reg; machines and, with the supplied PCNFS authentication daemon,
you can support machines running PC/NFS. FreeBSD also supports
Appletalk and Novell client/server networking (using an <a
href="http://www.netcon.com/">optional commercial package</a>),
making it a true "Intranet" networking solution.</p>
Appletalk and Novell client/server networking (using an optional
commercial software package), making it a true "Intranet" networking
solution.</p>
<p>FreeBSD also handles TCP extensions like the <a
href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1323.txt">RFC-1323</a>
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all their Internet data collection.
</li>
</ul>
<p>FreeBSD makes an ideal platform for these and other Internet
services:</p>
<ul>
<li>Company-wide or world-wide WWW service</li>
<li>Proxy WWW service</li>
<li>Anonymous FTP&nbsp;service</li>
<li>Enterprise file, print and mail services</li>
<li>Routers, firewalls and intrusion detection systems</li>
</ul>
<p>The FreeBSD <a href="&base;/ports/index.html">ports collection</a>
contains ready-to-run software that makes it easy to set up your own
Internet server.</p>
<h2>High performance <em>and</em>
security.</h2>
<p>The FreeBSD developers are as concerned about security as they
are about performance. FreeBSD includes kernel support for
IP&nbsp;firewalling, as well other services, such as IP proxy
gateways. If you put your corporate servers on the Internet, any
computer running FreeBSD can act as a network firewall to
protect them from outside attack.</p>
<p>Encryption software, secure shells, Kerberos, end-to-end encryption
and secure RPC facilities are also available (subject to export
restrictions).</p>
and secure RPC facilities are also available.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the FreeBSD team is proactive in detecting and
disseminating security information and bug reports with a <a
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<p><i>``FreeBSD ... provides what is probably the most robust and capable
TCP/IP stack in existence ...''</i></p>
<div align="right"><p>---Michael O'Brien, <i>SunExpert </i>August 1996
volume 7 number 8.</p></div>
&footer;
</body>
</html>