From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 30 12:10:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A649F37B402 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:10:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g0UKA6891061; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:10:07 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200201302010.g0UKA6891061@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Craig Burgess" Cc: "questions" Subject: Re: FreeBSD as "real router?" In-Reply-To: From: Chris Fedde Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:10:06 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:59:34 -0800 "Craig Burgess" wrote: +------------------ | Is it possible to use a FreeBSD-based machine (i386 or Alpha) as a | replacement for a "real router" connected directly to a T-1 or | other telco highspeed line? +------------------ This is a reasonable and not uncommon thing to do. You can expect comprable performance using FreeBSD with proper components as most dedicated three or four interface routers. You'll need proper interface hardware. There are several highspeed serial and ISDN cards supported. Most are listed in the handbook. /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/book.html -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message