From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 19 06:27:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA24464 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 19 May 1996 06:27:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gateway.ormond.unimelb.edu.au (College.ormond.unimelb.edu.au [203.17.189.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA24447 for ; Sun, 19 May 1996 06:27:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gavin@localhost) by gateway.ormond.unimelb.edu.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA08063 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 19 May 1996 23:27:00 +1000 From: Gavin Cameron Message-Id: <199605191327.XAA08063@gateway.ormond.unimelb.edu.au> Subject: 'making' a router using a PC and FreeBSD To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 23:26:59 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I'd just like to get other peoples opinions on using a PC running FreeBSD as a router versus a dedicated router. I'm going to need a router with 7 interfaces, which will all fit in a standard PC. The interfaces will all be 10Mbit, a mixture of UTP and fibre. It would be nice if the same machine could support 100Mbit in the future. I was thinking about the following PC configuration to solve my problem: Pentium (what speed will I need?) 32MB ram (open to suggestions here) 4 PCI ethernet cards 3 ISA ethernet cards ISA Video card 1 gig disk I know you can get multiple ethernet ports on some cards these days, do people recommeend these? if so which ones? I'll be sticking to 2.1.0 on this machine as I will need high reliability. Once 2.2 is released I'll be running that on this machine. I'll have one 10Mbit feed to the net, will a PC be able to sustain 10MBit throughput? I'll be doing IP firewalling and accounting on this machine, as well as running a DHCP server, apart from that it'll be shuffling packets. I look forward to your thoughts. Thanks very much, Gavin gavin@ormond.unimelb.edu.au