From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 15 12:47:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB55837B405 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:47:40 -0800 (PST) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id fAFKldH02548 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:47:39 +0200 Message-Id: <200111152047.fAFKldH02548@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 15 Nov 01 22:46:53 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:46:43 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: DSL PPPoE with 2 NICs In-reply-to: <006301c16e0a$fca53ba0$6600000a@ach.domain> References: <006601c16dbe$d666ce00$0a00000a@atkielski.com> X-info: Headers changed by Barricade 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 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