From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 22 1:35:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (nets5.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB49B37B5E3 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 01:35:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1/10) with ESMTP id KAA02119 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:35:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1/3) with ESMTP id KAA08121 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:36:22 +0100 (MET) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.3/8.6.9) id KAA14202 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:35:48 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:35:48 +0100 (CET) From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <200002220935.KAA14202@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD as high speed router Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A question to the network experts: I want to build a router between FDDI and Fast Ethernet (possibly without creating a subnet - something like arp proxy but that's more an IP issue; maybe someone can comment this also) My question is more hardware oriented: I'm thinking of using two PCI network cards. Fast Ethernet, no problem. But FDDI, what card? CPU will be a PIII (something fast, 500 MHz). Do I need much memory or would be 32 MB for the router purposes sufficient? -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message