Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 07:50:34 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building a multiport router out of FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970707074828.16363A-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970706122919.026d6320@sentex.net>
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On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Mike Tancsa wrote: > Hi, > We are going to be upping our connection to the net to 5Mbps in the near > future. Our upstream provider is going to provide us with a managed CISCO > that we will have no access to unfortunately. Since we have fairly complex > routing requirements, we need some sort of multi port router in the office. > Considering I can build a Pentium 133 with a 4 Ethernet cards for around > $1200 Canadian (~$800 USD), this is significantly cheaper and in some ways > provides many advantages over a dedicated multiport router. I was > wondering if anyone else out there have a similar setup ? Would a Pentium > 133 with 32meg of RAM be enough memory and CPU horse power? I imagine it > would have 2 100Mbp ethernet cards and probably 3 10Mb ethernet cards in it > and I would manage the routing via gated. We are only single homed and do > not require EBGP. The box would act as a dedicated router with the > firewall features enabled in the kernel. We get wire speed between 4 10Mbit nets using a 486Dx2/66 with NE2000 clone NICs and 16M of ram, so your solution should do pretty good. At this point, the best low-overhead PCI nics are the Intel cards. Avoid 3Com as if your job depended on it.
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