Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:57:22 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as high speed router Message-ID: <20000223115722.A23927@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <20000223114214.A45619@cons.org>; from cracauer@cons.org on Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 11:42:14AM %2B0100 References: <200002220935.KAA14202@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20000223114214.A45619@cons.org>
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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
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