From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 31 6:57:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E7C037B403 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 06:57:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id EC6E916B2F for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:57:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from IBM-HIRXKN66F0W.Go2France.com [12.64.36.144] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AA0B9E50070; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:07:07 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010831065144.0380ceb0@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 06:57:01 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: replacing a cisco router with a fbsd box In-Reply-To: <3B8F90CB.CEFC484C@wiegand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I am wondering if it is possible to replace it with a fbsd machine? >The problem I see with this is the connection of the csu/dsu to the >router - >it uses some funky block connector to plug into the cisco router. FreeBSD + ipfilter can do all your routing, packet filtering, PAT/NAT work just fine, and with more flexibility for interfaces. The speedbump for this project will be obtaining an HDLC WAN card to talk to the V.35 interface on the 1600. Try www.etinc.com (comes with an excellent bandwidth-manager included with their PCI cards), www.sangamo.com, www.lanmedia.com. The card will cost several $100. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message