FREESCO FAQ

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• Can you put FREESCO on a bootable CD?
  Yes, have a look at the FREESCO on CD project forum. There's also this thread on my forum, that describes the procedure. ...
• Can/Does Freesco automatically fail over to a dial connection when a permanent high speed connection goes away and/or automatically revert back to the high speed connection when it returns?
  No, not automatically, but if FREESCO 0.3.x is configured to use a high speed (ADSL/Cable) connection by default AND is configured with a modem, then ...
• Can I use FREESCO 0.3.x to load balancing 2 lines ADSL (use PPPOE)?
  No, this is not possible using FREESCO. More modern linux systems are required to add dynamic routing and load balancing.Related FAQ's:is multi-link supported?Does FREESCO support ...
• Can you put FREESCO on a bootable CD?
  Yes, you can! This article describes the procedure. An older version of this article is mirrored here. ...
• Can I use FREESCO as a standalone LAMP server?
  Yes, FREESCO can be configured as a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) server. For obvious reasons this is for HD install FREESCO's only (Apache/MySQL/PHP/Perl won't ...
• Can I use a serial console?
  Q: Can I use a serial console?So attach a serial terminal (i.e. VT100 or Wyse) to one of my freesco's PC COM ports using a ...
• Creating a "report"?
  FREESCO has a script that collates all the information that is needed to make a diagnosis of a problem with your setup. This information is refered ...
• Can I connect 2 dialup lines with one ISP login?
  No, multi-link isn't supported in FREESCO.The reason is because this requires advanced network routing capabilities (do a search on Google for iproute2) that require a ...
• Can I edit a file via the web control panel?
  No, although the web control panel has a command line where you can enter commands, you can NOT enter commands there that require user interaction, ...
• Can IP Masquerade work with only ONE Ethernet network card?
  Yes and no. With the "IP Alias" kernel feature, users can setup multiple aliased interfaces such as eth0:1, eth0:2, etc but its is NOT recommended to use aliased ...
• Can FREESCO be used to share multiple internet connections on a LAN? For example, 2 DSLs or a DSL and a cable modem.
  Not really, however these two FAQ's may be of interrest:Can/Does Freesco automatically fail over to a dialup connection?Can I connect 2 dialup lines with one ...
• Can FREESCO do NFS sharing?
  No, not out of the box.At least one user has reported to get NFS going (more or less) by x-fering the NFS utilities and daemons ...
• Can I connect to a FREESCO printer share?
  Not out of the box. But if you install the SAMBA and LPRng add-on packages you can follow the steps in this articleThe paths in ...
• Can I use an USB printer with the FREESCO printer server?
  No, I'm afraid not.Why not? See next FAQ:is USB supported? ...
• Connecting to exim at SMTP port 25 takes a long time?
  Problem: When you telnet to port 25 (SMTP) from "remote" to your FREESCO with exim installed it takes upto 30 seconds before you see the exim ...
• Can FREESCO act as an FTP server?
  Yes, FREESCO 0.3.x has a built-in FTP server that can be enabled in setup. This FTP server is based on http://www.pureftpd.org/For FREESCO 0.2.7 several 3rd-party ...
• CGI scripts (perl) not working?
  This is a common mistake on FREESCO, when files are FTP-ed or copied using SAMBA, they are in so called DOS text format. DOS uses CR ...
• Can you put FREESCO on a bootable CD?
  Yes, have a look at the FREESCO on CD project forum. There's also this thread on my forum, that describes the procedure. ...
• Can you put FREESCO on a bootable CD?
  Yes, you can! This article describes the procedure. An older version of this article is mirrored here. ...
• Connecting to exim at SMTP port 25 takes a long time?
  Problem: When you telnet to port 25 (SMTP) from "remote" to your FREESCO with exim installed it takes upto 30 seconds before you see the exim ...