From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jul 2 5:50:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90CF037B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 05:50:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.wineasy.se (smtp.wineasy.se [195.42.198.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19FC543E13 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 05:50:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@veidit.net) Received: from veidit.net ([213.88.130.20]) by relay.wineasy.se with ESMTP id g62Co6Y25529 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:50:09 +0200 Message-ID: <3D21A17C.7060607@veidit.net> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 14:50:04 +0200 From: John Angelmo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: net@freebsd.org Subject: increasing throughput Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello I was thinking of cunstructing a small routerbox in my sparetime. Now since FreeBSD is my choise of OS i was thinking of a small box silent box. So how can I combine speed, size, silence and price? I was thinking of vias small buget systems (via Eden) and to that an extra intel pro 10/100 NIC Now how much can I expect in loss in throughput when selecting this system,since it is a budget system ;) Its just supposed to shuffle traffic as a router or perhaps as a gateway with a simple ipfw firewall. What extra features should I add to the kernel and are there any othere great hints? /John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message