From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 23 3: 1:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (nets5.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B321137B546 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 03:01:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1/10) with ESMTP id LAA01554; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:57:20 +0100 (MET) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1/3) with ESMTP id LAA27627; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:57:58 +0100 (MET) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.3/8.6.9) id LAA23948; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:57:22 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:57:22 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Martin Cracauer Cc: Christoph Kukulies , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as high speed router Message-ID: <20000223115722.A23927@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <200002220935.KAA14202@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20000223114214.A45619@cons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000223114214.A45619@cons.org>; from cracauer@cons.org on Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 11:42:14AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 11:42:14AM +0100, Martin Cracauer wrote: > 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 Interesting. > 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). Would be interesting to tell how you managed to produce a bootable floppy with the subsequent scripting that starts the OS and all that. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message