From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 23 2:46:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76DE537B86D for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 02:46:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cracauer@gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (8.9.3/8.7.3) id LAA45895; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:42:14 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:42:14 +0100 From: Martin Cracauer To: Christoph Kukulies Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as high speed router Message-ID: <20000223114214.A45619@cons.org> References: <200002220935.KAA14202@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i 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 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message