From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 7 21:13:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C1C416A41F for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:13:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from slas7713@yahoo.com) Received: from web33607.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33607.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.199.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 157AF43F37 for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:13:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from slas7713@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 62117 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Aug 2005 21:13:25 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=QHxb66QBAD4MfIt8XagZommhXd2M/QEbjLJAyIxBxb2S5am8TUDT6YXRnvEDMUy6iffkU4MrNnbywcasbU1fF9Dbq9+UkLlkhVrqsd7cZauoj5zFv9JNQqHvDA4paSNu30fqkY0PS2r+kn9RyeOKzQTU7hePB/GX54qIWcdBE9U= ; Message-ID: <20050807211325.62115.qmail@web33607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.216.129.249] by web33607.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 14:13:25 PDT Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 14:13:25 -0700 (PDT) From: steve lasiter To: free bsd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: gateway configuration X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:13:26 -0000 I am researching and accumulating information on setting up my small office network and using a FreeBSD Gateway/Firewall as my entry point. I am seeking general FreeBSD advise, know problems, and input on this topic. I currently have all the equipment up and configured and now I'm tying it all together. The computer I will be setting up as the the Gateway has FreeBSD 5.4 and is a PII 400MHz with 256MB Ram and 9 Gig HDD. I plan on putting two new ethernet cards in to ensure quality. Any advice on whether this seems sufficient if this machine is only serving as a Gateway. I understand a lot will depend on my rules and traffic so I may up the ram, or get another pc for it based on advice received here. Also, should I put a gigabit Ethernet card in my Gateway?-see below topic. I recently bought two new Dual Pentium 1.2GHz with SCSI's and both have gigabit ethernet ports along with the standard ethernet ports. I have the SMP Kenel configured and the boxes ready to go as a mail/web/database server and the other as a streaming video/ftp server. I have six boxes total and will be adding more. What is going to be the best way to take advantage of the gigabit ethernet ports on the big dual boxes? I read that FreeBSD had some issues with the gigabit ethernets earlier, are there still outstanding issues? Should I upgrade the other PC's to gigabit ethernet cards in order to take advantage of this or should I buy a switch with both port types and just mix and match? I'm sure one of you out there has worked these issue at some point and I need the usual expert advice I have consistently received from you guys. Thanks in advance, Dean Lasiter ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs