Re: [9fans] the practicality of plan 9

2022-11-08 Thread adventuresin9
The Plan9 way of handling internet gateways is to have a machine with 2 network adapters.  One connected inside your network, and one outside.  You configure the internal one, and bind it to /net.  And the internet facing port your bind to /net.alt.  Then any computer on the grid can import

Re: [9fans] the practicality of plan 9

2022-11-08 Thread Lucio De Re
On 11/9/22, fig wrote: > sirjofri, thank you for the reply. don’t be sorry for the long response, i > greatly appreciate it. when i was told plan 9 is built on only a few > principles and basic abstractions, that was spot on. > If you read the early Plan 9 documentation, you'll discover that

Re: [9fans] the practicality of plan 9

2022-11-08 Thread fig
sirjofri, thank you for the reply. don’t be sorry for the long response, i greatly appreciate it. when i was told plan 9 is built on only a few principles and basic abstractions, that was spot on. i’ve decided i’m going to make my grid at home. the only thing i haven’t figured out is networking