From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jun 20 13:38:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.go2france.com (go2france.com [209.51.193.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B269E14D6B for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 13:37:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lconrad@Go2France.com) Received: from superviseur [62.161.63.210] by mail.go2france.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-4.03) id ACDF59902A2; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:11:27 EDT Message-Id: <4.2.0.56.19990620222021.00ae7ca0@go2france.com> X-Sender: lconrad@go2france.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.56 (Beta) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 22:36:25 +0200 To: muditha@seychelles.net From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: Router question Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <376D4B1C.C4964A31@seychelles.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=====================_23070113==_.ALT" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --=====================_23070113==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed >I am looking for a single IP router to connect to my switch on the main >ISP lan so that I connect my customer networks via leased-lines. I want >a router which can hadle about 12 different LANS which means I want it >to have 12 ports to connect the leased-line modems. If the leased line modems are syncrhonous, then you don't have a ton of choices, as I recently found out. www.etinc.com has new 4-port sync PCI board, it can go multi-megabit per port (I haven't found any cheaper, mutliport sync wan that are low-speed only), and can have up to 5 boards/PC, 20 sync WAN ports. And ET apparently prefers FreeBSD as a networking OS, but the do have Linux drivers. $325/port list price, but if you buy 3 you can probably wangle for VAR/reseller discount. For the customer premises FreeBSD router, ET has old 1-port ISA board, which is just fine. If you have to connect to Cisco, then ET has special "Cisco-HDLC" option. The Asus P2B-F mobo has onboard scsi, 5 PCI slots plus AGP slot (ie, video doesn't require a PCI slot). A Pentium II/350 is probably the best price point now and plenty of power to drive 12 serial WAN ports at 256 kbits/sec each, plus maybe some ipfilter-ing and ipnat-ting. Len ========================== >To save the number of IP addresses I want it to be single IP rotuer and >on the customer end I will setup another single IP router ( connected to >my router at the ISP...customer router could be a freebsd box running >NAT). The rotuer (gateway) on the customer end will have another on of >my IP addresses and also non-routable IP on its network card. The >customer gateway and my router will need have 4wire & 2 wire lease-lines >upto 64Kbps( 4 wire) depending on the customer needs connected by >leased-line modems. > >Any help and recommendations this will be appreciated. > >( ISP-switch--router-modem----LL---modem--NAT box---LAN) > >Thanx >-- >-- >--------------------- > Muditha Gunatilake > Atlas Seychelles Ltd > > Phone:304060 > email: muditha@seychelles.net > mbh3gpa@afs.mcc.ac.uk > muditha@creole.seychelles.net > :-) > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message --=====================_23070113==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
I am looking for a single IP router to connect to my switch on the main
ISP lan so that I connect my customer networks via leased-lines. I want
a router which can hadle about 12 different LANS which means I want it
to have 12 ports to connect the leased-line modems.

If the leased line modems are syncrhonous, then you don't have a ton of choices, as I recently found out.  www.etinc.com has new 4-port sync PCI board, it can go multi-megabit per port (I haven't found any cheaper, mutliport sync wan that are low-speed only), and can have up to 5 boards/PC, 20 sync WAN ports.  And ET apparently prefers FreeBSD as a networking OS, but the do have Linux drivers.   $325/port list price, but if you buy 3 you can probably wangle for VAR/reseller discount.

For the customer premises FreeBSD router, ET has old 1-port ISA board, which is just fine.  If you have to connect to Cisco, then ET has special "Cisco-HDLC" option.

The Asus P2B-F mobo has onboard scsi, 5 PCI slots plus AGP slot (ie, video doesn't require a PCI slot).  A Pentium II/350 is probably the best price point now and plenty of power to drive 12 serial WAN ports at 256 kbits/sec each, plus maybe some ipfilter-ing and ipnat-ting.

Len

==========================

To save the number of IP addresses I want it to be single IP rotuer and
on the customer end I will setup another single IP router ( connected to
my router at the ISP...customer router could be a freebsd box running
NAT).  The rotuer (gateway) on the customer end will have another on of
my IP addresses and also non-routable IP on its network card. The
customer gateway and my router will need have 4wire & 2 wire lease-lines
upto 64Kbps( 4 wire)  depending on the customer needs connected by
leased-line modems.

Any help and recommendations this will be appreciated.

( ISP-switch--router-modem----LL---modem--NAT box---LAN)

Thanx
--
--
---------------------
 Muditha Gunatilake
 Atlas Seychelles Ltd

 Phone:304060
 email: muditha@seychelles.net
        mbh3gpa@afs.mcc.ac.uk
        muditha@creole.seychelles.net
 :-)




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