From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 08:01:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3734437B422 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:01:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cobalt.4gl.com (cobalt.4gl.com [66.212.110.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DDC043F75 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:01:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbettinger@championelevators.com) Received: from helpdesk.championelevators.com (node-97-98.4gl.com [66.212.97.98] (may be forged)) by cobalt.4gl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA18483; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:19:38 -0500 From: Matthew Bettinger Organization: Champion Elevators, inc. To: Kenneth Culver , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:00:52 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <1060871994.5979.12.camel@alexandria> <20030814104618.T20039@alpha.yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <20030814104618.T20039@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308141000.52989.mbettinger@championelevators.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD as router - performance vs hardware routers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: mbettinger@championelevators.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:01:13 -0000 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