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date:Oct. 7, 2009

The Debian Release Team is pleased to announce that it sees the port of
the Debian system to the FreeBSD kernel fit to be handeld equal with the
other release ports.  The upcoming release codenamed ‘Squeeze’ is
planned to be the first Debian distribution to be released with Linux
and FreeBSD kernels.

The kFreeBSD architectures for the AMD64/Intel EM64T and i386 processor
architectures are now release architectures.  Severe bugs on these
architectures will be considered release critical the same way as bugs
on other architectures like armel or i386 are.  If a particular package
does not build or work properly on such an architecture this problem is
considered release-critical.

Step by Step Procedure

Step 1. Add 2 LAN cards to the Linux box. You need to have two(2) NICs, one for your private network and one for the public IP address

Step 2. Check if your networks cards are properly detected and installed. You can use the command “dmesg” to verify if it was recognized during the boot-up process

Sample output:
#dmesg |grep eth

e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfa061000, irq 177, MAC addr 00:10:DC:5E:A8:BF
e100: eth1: e100_probe: addr 0xfa060000, irq 185, MAC addr 00:10:DC:5E:A8:C0
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, half-duplex
e100: eth1: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex

 

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