From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 11 0: 8: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guppy.pond.net (guppy.pond.net [205.240.25.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE2614BD6 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:08:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gryph@mindless.com) Received: from mindless.com (snapuser2-89.pacificcrest.net [216.36.34.89]) by guppy.pond.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA16693; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:04:23 -0700 (PDT) From: gryph@mindless.com Message-ID: <37D9FFC6.C895A926@mindless.com> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:07:50 -0700 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Rothenberg Cc: dmp@aracnet.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firewalls [Was: Re: HW requirements] References: <3.0.3.32.19990907141928.010f27c8@slider> <3.0.3.32.19990910095518.00729a94@slider> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Rothenberg wrote: > >How fast is your internet link? > > I have no idea. Cable modem goes to the cable company };) so I am assuming > its at least 112k. Hopefully more. Calling them is no help as its always > 'Um.. yeah you can do that, I think... but I have no idea how...sorry' > Thought about DSL, but its too expensive for what I am doing now, basically > web surfing and playing around. Maybe later when I get a web server up. I believe cable modem technology is up to 36Mbps, but your cableco or ISP (@home, roadrunner, etc) probably has a bandwidth cap on it. I haven't built a gateway for a cable modem before, but I would expect that a P100, and a pair of quality PCI NICs (I personally recommend 3c905B-TX's) would be enough performance. Did you get a cable modem kit with an ethernet card? If so, what brand and model? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message