From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jul 2 7:57: 3 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 3348237B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 07:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from measurement-factory.com (measurement-factory.com [206.168.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1FBC43E2F for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 07:57:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rousskov@measurement-factory.com) Received: (from rousskov@localhost) by measurement-factory.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g62Eurm01747; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 08:56:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from rousskov) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 08:56:53 -0600 (MDT) From: Alex Rousskov To: John Angelmo Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: increasing throughput In-Reply-To: <3D21A17C.7060607@veidit.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, John Angelmo wrote: > 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 You may also consider Soekris boxes, especially if you need a fan-less configuration. People use them for routers and firewalls. Some OpenBSD and FreeBSD documentation and software is available. You can probably find some performance measurements as well or ask on Soekris mailing list: http://www.soekris.com/ I am not associated with Soekris; we are just happy customers. Alex. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message