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Thus far, I have been describing my home network, where the users consist of myself, my wife, and a couple of cats. But, just to show that this isn't all theory, let me describe the system I set up for a friend of mine. He has a small company, with a few Sun workstations and a few Windows95 computers.

The gateway machine is the cast-off game machine of my frined's son. He wanted a pentium machine to play games with, leaving his old 486 system available. The system consists of:

It has a 486/66 cpu,
8 of memory,
Quantum Fireball 1 GB disk drive,
1.44MB floppy,
Back-UPS

Basically, a pretty wimpy system, beneath the dignity of all but the most impoverished gamester. However, it has been working now for almost two years, delivering email, providing connectivity for the browser and file transfer activity of the company.

There are a few major differences between this gateway machine and draco, since the system is two years old, and is working so well that no one wants to mess with it.

Popclient instead of fetchmail: Popclient is a precursor to fetchmail, working with a system of shell scripts to distribute mail into files associated with the users.
The kernel is down-rev.
IP Masquerade is down-rev.
Users use POP mail readers, fetching their mail from the gateway machine.: Unix users send/read mail with Netscape Communicator.; PC users send/read mail with Eudora or one of the other Windows mail programs.

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