From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Sep 12 18:01:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA22594 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 18:01:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from DNS.Lamb.net (root@DNS.Lamb.net [207.90.181.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA22588 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 18:01:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by DNS.Lamb.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id SAA27983; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 18:05:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.Alameda.net(207.90.181.2) via SMTP by DNS.Lamb.net, id smtpd027981; Fri Sep 12 18:05:19 1997 Received: (from ulf@localhost) by Gatekeeper.Alameda.net (8.8.6/8.7.6) id SAA11978; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 18:01:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Ulf Zimmermann Message-Id: <199709130101.SAA11978@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net> Subject: Re: NAT for dialups? In-Reply-To: from Andrew Webster at "Sep 12, 97 08:11:52 pm" To: andrew@pubnix.net Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 18:01:13 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, andre@pipeline.ch X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, IBS / Andre Oppermann wrote: > > > Richard Hodges wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 12 Sep 1997 lashby@texramp.net wrote: > > -snip- > > > I did a quick test with ether/ether on a 486/100 with 2.2.2 It > > > worked surprisingly well. I tested web, ftp, irc, news, realaudio, > > > and MS file & print services. FTP pooped out around 400K/second, > > > about half what it should be (CPU utilization: around 30%), but > > > normal web browsing seemed as good (or better!) than before. > > > > I've done some FreeBSD routing performance test 2 weeks ago and figured > > out that a P133 with 16Megs RAM and two 3c90x FastEthernet cards can > > easy route at full (!) Ethernet speed between it. I've got about > > 8-9 Megs a second (and one segment has a little bit other traffic). > > That is impressive (try to calculate what a Cisco router costs...). > > I'm going to make more of this routing performance test with an > > controlled environment and some HSSI cards (how mutch is a SDL-T3 > > card?). > > > So all we need now is an encryption module and voila instant VPN tunnels. > > This would be an incredibly good feature that would cause people to think > twice about full blown FW and Ciscos costing $10K and up!! > As you already talk about tunnel (encrypted or not), what software is everyone here using to do tunnels on FreeBSD ? :) -- Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073