From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 13 1:10:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from houseofcats.org (adsl-216-102-197-87.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.197.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0FAF1513F; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 01:10:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from amcconnell@acm.org) Received: from adsl-216-102-197-87.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net. (adsl-216-102-197-87.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net. [216.102.197.87]) by houseofcats.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA34088; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 01:09:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from amcconnell@acm.org) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 01:09:37 -0800 (PST) From: Andy McConnell X-Sender: andym@neroon.houseofcats.org To: Mike Cc: Ulf Zimmermann , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cisco Ethernet WAN module? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike - If you are going for cost effective, and you're asking on the FreeBSD lists, your better bet is to go with a recylced Pentium with 2 ethernet cards, and run FreeBSD and Gated. Not only do you get the low cost for hardware, you get a free router, web site, DNS secondary, mail server, and anything else you want to customize. Not to mention a free firewall and natd (if you're into that sort of thing. :-) If this is a link between two offices, then you don't have to worry about the tech support for end users. So, if someone has some basic working knowledge of FreeBSD, your solution is the cost of two old machines. And chances are, someone in your company needs an upgrade - oh, what to do with that old PII-366 in the corner? :-) -Andy -- Andy McConnell amcconnell@acm.org "First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl." - M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Mike wrote: Mike> Hi Ulf, Mike> Mike> Actually something very similar to the Netopia R9100 Ethernet router, Mike> which features the ethernet port to connect to the DSL modem for WAN Mike> link. Cisco does have DSL routers available but the maximum upstream Mike> bandwidth is not in megabit range. We have T1 links in our office, Mike> and this will just be a link between our branch offices since it's an Mike> extremely cost-effective solution with DSL. Mike> Mike> Mike Mike> Mike> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: Mike> Mike> > Ethernet is LAN, not WAN. So what are you exactly looking for ? A router Mike> > which has 2 ethernet or 2 fastethernet plus WAN ports for like a T1 ? Mike> Mike> Mike> Mike> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org Mike> with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message Mike> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message