From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 8 18:26:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA25150 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 18:25:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from csc.canberra.edu.au (csc.canberra.edu.au [137.92.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25138 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 18:25:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaels@NATSEM.canberra.edu.au) Received: from by csc.canberra.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA27551; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:05:17 +1100 (EDT) Received: from natsem.canberra.edu.au (nt.natsem.canberra.edu.au [137.92.109.16]) by torrens.natsem.canberra.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA10950; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:07:38 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <3646405D.101D8DC7@natsem.canberra.edu.au> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 12:07:41 +1100 From: Michael Still X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White CC: Michael Still , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewalls built with FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We are a research centre at a University. I don't pay for the big pipe into the campus, and have very little to do with it. We have a dedicated firewall (a Cisco), but we also want to have another firewall, so that we can have a DMZ inbetween. We also consider it desirable to have radically different OS's on the two firewalls.\ Michael Doug White wrote: > 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 -- Michael Still, Network Manager, Natsem, University of Canberra, Australia Phone: 02 6201 2752 or +61414 382 568 Email: michaels@natsem.canberra.edu.au WWW: http://www.natsem.canberra.edu.au http://canberra.hotkey.net.au/~mikal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message