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<h2>FreeBSD was designed for the Internet</h2>
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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.
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FreeBSD 7.0 also includes the reference implementation of SCTP, thus
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making it an ideal platform for telephony and other data streaming
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applications.</p>
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<h2>FreeBSD supports all standard TCP/IP protocols.</h2>
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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>Serve static and dynamic web content over HTTP</li>
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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>Handle and provide email services over SMTP, IMAP and POP3</li>
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<li>Support remote logins over SSH and rsh</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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<li>Provide services over IPv6</li>
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</ul>
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<p>FreeBSD lets you to turn a PC into a World Wide Web server,
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mail server or an
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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 Microsoft®
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Windows® 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 optional
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commercial software package), making it a true "Intranet" networking
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solution.</p>
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<p>FreeBSD also handles TCP extensions like the <a
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href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1323.txt">RFC-1323</a>
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high performance extension, 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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<h2>FreeBSD's networking is stable and
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fast.</h2>
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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>Walnut Creek CDROM ran one of the most popular FTP servers
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on the Internet, ftp.cdrom.com, exclusively on FreeBSD for
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many years. It was a single FreeBSD machine supporting 6000
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connections, and capable of transferring more than 30
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terabytes (as of June, 1999; yes that is <i>terabytes</i>!)
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worth of files every month to more than 10 million
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people.</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 as 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><a href="http://www.netcraft.com/">Netcraft</a> is the leading
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researcher of web server software usage on the Internet. They use
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FreeBSD and Apache to power their website, and FreeBSD/Perl for
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all their Internet data collection.
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</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, print and mail services</li>
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<li>Routers, firewalls and intrusion detection systems</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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<h2>High performance <em>and</em>
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security.</h2>
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<p>The FreeBSD developers are 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
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computer 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.</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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<h2>What experts have to say...</h2>
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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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