From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 7 01:23:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA12470 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 01:23:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA12461 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 01:23:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA20694; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 01:23:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 01:23:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Michael Still cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewalls built with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <363D0EF6.4C2C933A@natsem.canberra.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Michael Still wrote: > I have a question regarding firewalls built with FreeBSD. I have a > Pentium 90 kicking spare, and want to put two 100 M ethernet interfaces > into it and set it up as a firewall. I am just wondering what sort of > through-put I can expect (at a maximum). > The problem is that we have a 45 M link into the building and I don't > want to slow that down too much. If you're spending that much money for that big a link, spend the money and get a *real* router too. A P90 barely cuts it for my house 100mbit network. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message