Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:00:52 -0500 From: Matthew Bettinger <mbettinger@championelevators.com> To: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as router - performance vs hardware routers Message-ID: <200308141000.52989.mbettinger@championelevators.com> In-Reply-To: <20030814104618.T20039@alpha.yumyumyum.org> References: <1060871994.5979.12.camel@alexandria> <20030814104618.T20039@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
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On Thursday 14 August 2003 09:50 am, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > What I'm not sure about is performance. Has anyone built a cable > > modem gateway router using FreeBSD and "low-end" hardware like > > this? If so, what were your results? I'm using openbsd now but have ran freebsd as a router with minimal hardware. P133 32 megs of ram. 30 dollar box. 4 network cards. Based on prior discussions regarding minimal hardware, I think the main thing to pay attention to is the type and brand of network cards you are going to be using. I would stay away from those interrupter from hell rl0 cards. You won't be able to budge a 30-40 dollar pentium box with 32 or more megs of ram with your cable modem connection. -- Matthew Bettinger System Administrator Champion Elevators, Inc. Houston, Texas 77061 713.640.8500 -- Key fingerprint = 1510 343D 41A3 5D55 D3AF 1ED7 72CD 7022 A70A 39F4 http://championelevators.com/~mbettinger/pubkey.htm
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