Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:46:43 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: DSL PPPoE with 2 NICs Message-ID: <200111152047.fAFKldH02548@lv.raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <006301c16e0a$fca53ba0$6600000a@ach.domain> References: <006601c16dbe$d666ce00$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Hi! Anthony Atkielsky wrote: > It is not clear to me what advantage I would gain by using the > FreeBSD system as the gateway, apart from saving $100 on a router > (and even that isn't necessarily true, if I have to buy another > NIC). More flexibility is one thing that springs to mind immediately. Actually, I just had one specific bad experience with toaster-box router/firewall (SMC7008BR). I needed to open some ports in the firewall to enable one of our sub-offices to use one of our network applications. And guess what - I just couldn't do that. The best I could achieve was the situation where one computer at a time (the one that was turned on first in the morning) was able to use the application. This was an endless frustration until I threw out the SMC, put together a PC from the spare parts laying around (P5/120, 16 MB RAM) and installed FreeBSD 4.4 + IPFilter. Since I have installed less than 10 FreeBSD systems overall and had never seen IPFilter before that day, I don't think it took too long - just one working day. My daily salary is *way* less than $800 :-) Actually I wish my *monthly* salary was that big ;-))) -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * If they combined country with rap, would they call it crap? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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