Welcome to Michael Peer's Freeware Page

Freeware that is used by me and my friends.

UNIX Software:

Analog

Web server log analyzer.

Apache

The world's most popular webserver.

BIND

Berkeley Internet Name Domain. DNS Server.
--- This may have a problem on early versions of FreeBSD with /dev/random
PDF documentation for 9.2.0

Berkley dbm software

The original Berkley dbm database software. This site is keeping the software current.
Please follow the main link for download, FAQ, documentation, and configuration help. Please check licenses on 3.x and above before using.

Clam AV Virus Scanner

From Website "A GPL virus scanner. That can be used with spamassassin, and postfix.

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration software for client and server
Download

FreeBSD

The world's best Operating System!
Download instructions
Online documentation
Frequently Asked Questions Page
Tutorial Page

GateD

Merit GateD consortium routing daemon
This is old software, please use multi-threaded Routing toolkit, Zebra Routing Software or Quagga Routing Software
Please follow the main link for download, FAQ, documentation, and configuration help. Although this software is widely used it may becoming somewhat old.

IP Filter

Firewall and NAT software
Please follow the main link for What is new, FAQ, documentation.

IMAP Server

Universtiy of Washington IMAP and POP3 server.

LDAP

LDAP will go on a separate page soon. It was just to complicated for a one liner.

Majordomo

Majordomo Mailing list Server
FAQ

Mailman

The GNU Mailing List Manager.

Multi Router Traffic Grapher Project

PERL CGI program to graph multiple routers stats. You can also use it to graph anything else.
Please follow the main link for download, FAQ, documentation, and configuration help. There is also a beta release on main site.

Multi-threaded Routing Toolkit

Multi protocol routing daemons for IPv4/IPv6. Source is freely available. NT/200 binaries available. I have not tried this, but since gated is not releasing ALL their code, I want a freely available routing code.
Please follow the main link for download, FAQ, documentation, and configuration help.

Nagios

A tool to monitor network status for hosts and services.
This tool replaces NetSaint.
Please see main page for more information.

NetSaint

This tool has been replaced by Nagios.
A tool to monitor network status for hosts and services.
Current Version: deprecated

Network Time Protocol

The standard implementation of ntp for keeping time synchronized on the Internet.
Documentation Page
List of Public Time Servers

Open SSH

Awesome program for encrypting the link between you and a remote computer!
Look at PuTTY for a replacement for windows telnet client.

OpenSSL

Awesome API for encrypting the link between you and a remote computer!
This code is part of FreeBSD and can be added to apache web server.

Perl Page

A popular server scripting language.

PHP Home Page

A popular server scripting package.
Documentation Page

ProFTPD Project Home Page

A popular ftp server.
Please follow the main link for download, FAQ, documentation, and configuration help.

Poppassd

Server to allow users to change the password remotely.

Postfix

Alternative Internet mailer package.
Unfornately unwanted e-mail has become a BIG problem on the Internet. Spam Help page.

PostgresSQL

A popular SQL database package for UNIX and windows.
FreeBSD users Warning:
I installed this from the ports, and I could not run initdb. Apparently there is not enough semaphores. I will publish notes on install when I have a better understanding.
I am working on developing an application using this implementation. I will let you know how it goes. This database is distributed under BSD style license instead of the GPL license.
Documentation Page

QPopper

The best POP3 server by the people who do Eurdora!

Quagga Software Router

Software Routing Suite supporting RIP, OSPF and BGP. This was a fork from Zebra.

Samba

SMB Server for UNIX! Share your FreeBSD's hard disk for windows 95/98/NT(c) hosts.
Please follow the main link for download, FAQ, documentation, and configuration help. Samba base code has been branched. The new version

Sendmail

THE mail server!
Please follow the main link for download, FAQ, documentation, and configuration help.
Unfornately unwanted e-mail has become a BIG problem on the Internet. Spam Help page.

Squid web cacheing

Awesome program for cacheing the web!
Users Guide

Squirrel Mail

Web based e-mail front end written in PHP4.

stunnel

Universal SSL Wrapper. A program to tunnel any tcp connection through SSL.

Subversion

From their website: "A compelling replacement for CVS"
Documentation:
Subversion book online
Clients:
TortoiseSVN - Windows client for Subversion

Zebra Routing Software

Free routing software distributed under GNU license.

Porting Help

Patching a port:

How to patch a port article.

Windows Software:

DHCP/BOOTP Server

Windows DHCP/BOOTP Server for a PC.

Opera web Browser

Multiplatform alternative web browser. It is really nice. I bought it, now it is free for windows, and buy for mobile devices.

PostgresSQL

A popular SQL database package for UNIX and windows.
Documentation Page

PuTTY

Windows ssh Client for OpenSSH above.

SharpReader

Windows RSS/Atom Aggregator for widows.

WinSCP

Windows scp Client used with PuTTY

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