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<h1>FreeBSD was designed for the Internet</h1>
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<blockquote>
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<p>FreeBSD includes what many consider the <i>reference</i>
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implementation for TCP/IP software, the 4.4 BSD TCP/IP protocol stack,
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thereby making it ideal for network applications and the Internet.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<hr align="left" noshade="noshade" width="100%"><font
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color="#FF0000"><font size="+1">FreeBSD supports standard TCP/IP
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protocols.</font></font>
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<blockquote>
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<p>Like most UNIX systems, the FreeBSD operating system enables you
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to</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Share filesystems with NFS</li>
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<li>Distribute network information with NIS</li>
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<li>Support remote logins</li>
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<li>Do remote SNMP configuration and management</li>
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<li>Serve files with FTP</li>
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<li>Resolve Internet hostnames with DNS/BIND</li>
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<li>Route packets between multiple interfaces, including PPP and SLIP
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lines</li>
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<li>Use IP Multicast services (the MBONE)</li>
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</ul>
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<p>FreeBSD lets you to turn a PC into a World Wide Web server or
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Usenet news relay with included software. Using the included SAMBA
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software you can even share filesystems or printers with your Win95
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and NT machines and, with the supplied PCNFS authentication daemon,
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you can support machines running PC/NFS. FreeBSD also supports
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Appletalk and Novell client/server networking (using an <a
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href="http://www.netcon.com/">optional commercial package</a>),
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making it a true "Intranet" networking solution.</p>
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<p>FreeBSD also handles TCP extensions like the <a
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href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc1323.html">RFC-1323</a>
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high performance extension and <a
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href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc1644.html">RFC-1644</a>
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extension for transactions, plus SLIP and dial-on-demand PPP. It is
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an operating system suitable for a home-based net surfer as well as a
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corporate systems administrator.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<hr align="left" noshade="noshade" width="100%"><font
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color="#FF0000"><font size="+1">FreeBSD's networking is stable and
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fast.</font></font>
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<blockquote>
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<p>If you need an Internet server platform that is reliable and offers
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the best performance under heavy load, then consider FreeBSD. Here
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are just a few of the companies that make use of FreeBSD every
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day:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.cdrom.com/">Walnut Creek CD-ROM</a> outside of
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San Francisco runs one of the most popular <a
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href="ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/">FTP server</a>s on the net, one
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that supports 6000 simultaneous connections. Their server is a
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single FreeBSD machine, transferring more than 30 terabytes (as of
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June, 1999; yes that is <i>terabytes</i>!) worth of files every
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month to more than 10 million people. The <a
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href="ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/archive-info/wcarchive.txt">configuration
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details</a> are available to those interested in building
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simililar systems.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo Inc.</a> runs the ultimate
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index of the Internet, serving scads of daily net surfers with
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information about the World Wide Web. Yahoo, as well the companies
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that advertise on Yahoo, rely on FreeBSD to run reliable and
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responsive web servers.</li>
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<li>If that is not enough, visit our <a
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href="&base/gallery/gallery.html">Gallery</a> of satisfied FreeBSD
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users.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>FreeBSD makes an ideal platform for these and other Internet
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services:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Company-wide or world-wide WWW service</li>
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<li>Proxy WWW service</li>
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<li>Anonymous FTP service</li>
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<li>Enterprise file and print services</li>
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</ul>
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<p>The FreeBSD <a href="&base/ports/index.html">ports collection</a>
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contains ready-to-run software that makes it easy to set up your own
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Internet server.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<hr align="left" noshade="noshade" width="100%"><font
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color="#FF0000"><font size="+1">High performance <em>and</em>
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security.</font></font>
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<blockquote>
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<p>The FreeBSD development team is as concerned about security as they
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are about performance. FreeBSD includes kernel support for
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IP firewalling, as well other services, such as IP proxy
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gateways. If you put your corporate servers on the Internet, any 386
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PC (or better) running FreeBSD can act as a network firewall to
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protect them from outside attack.</p>
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<p>Encryption software, secure shells, Kerberos, end-to-end encryption
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and secure RPC facilities are also available (subject to export
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restrictions).</p>
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<p>Furthermore, the FreeBSD team is proactive in detecting and
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disseminating security information and bug reports with a <a
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href="mailto:security-officer@FreeBSD.ORG">security officer</a> and
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ties to the Computer Emergency Response Team (<a
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href="http://www.cert.org/">CERT</a>).</p>
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</blockquote>
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<h2>What experts have to say . . .</h2>
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<blockquote>
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<p><i>``FreeBSD ... provides what is probably the most robust and capable
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TCP/IP stack in existence ...''</i></p>
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<div align="right"><p>---Michael O'Brien, <i>SunExpert </i>August 1996
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volume 7 number 8.</p></div>
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</blockquote>
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