From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 21 1:31:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from edwin.mounet.com (edwin.mounet.com [216.145.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1179737B72B for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 01:31:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hornback@wireco.net) Received: (qmail 21454 invoked by uid 0); 21 Mar 2001 09:16:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tomcat) (216.145.67.47) by mounet.com with SMTP; 21 Mar 2001 09:16:00 -0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: What name brand would you buy for a firewall/router ? Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 04:33:21 -0500 Message-ID: <002a01c0b1e9$f805cd40$0e00000a@tomcat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <006e01c0b1cc$3c563020$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted, An easy fix there would be to throw in a Promise EIDE Max or EIDE Pro card. Basically a 16 bit card that'll allow you to run up to 8.4 Gig drives in a system that wouldn't otherwise support them. Not sure if FreeBSD supports this or not, might want to find out. But, if you're really in need of smaller IDE drives, I may have a source for you... --- Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ted > Mittelstaedt > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 1:01 AM > To: Andrew Hesford; John Telford > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: What name brand would you buy for a firewall/router ? > > > I've actually found that 486/33's and 486/25's are quite > satisfactory at acting as simple Ethernet-to-Ethernet routers. > > In fact, at my home here I have a 386/25 EISA box with > 2 SMC8013 ethernet cards in it and I can pass 3.5Mbt through > this for hours without trouble. This is with a 10BaseT > nic in a Celeron that can run the Ethernet at 9Mbt if no > other devices are talking. > > The great thing about the 486's is that the CPU's don't have > to be fan-cooled so there's one more failure point gone, > and they use less power, generate less heat, and as a > result last a lot longer. The downside is finding 500Mbt > disk drives for them. > > Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com > Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message