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Date:      Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:42:14 +0100
From:      Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD as high speed router
Message-ID:  <20000223114214.A45619@cons.org>
In-Reply-To: <200002220935.KAA14202@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>; from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE on Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 10:35:48AM %2B0100
References:  <200002220935.KAA14202@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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In <200002220935.KAA14202@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, Christoph Kukulies wrote: 
> 
> A question to the network experts:
> 
> I want to build a router between FDDI and Fast Ethernet 
[...]
> CPU will be a PIII (something fast, 500 MHz).
> Do I need much memory or would be 32 MB for the router purposes
> sufficient?

I have a Firewall with quite some filtering that has a throughput of
about 7MB/sec. It is a P-90 in a HX board with 32 MB and two fxp
cards, so you definitivly don't need ninja macho pentium for this task
(better give it to me :-).

The thing is bootet from floppy and is a pure filtering router, no
NAT, no applications/server, no proxies (which is suicide on a
firewall anyway).

Martin
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BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany     http://www.bsdhh.org/


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