From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 19:49:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA16438 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 19:49:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA16421 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 19:49:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA08566; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 14:18:49 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512190348.OAA08566@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Freebsd as a router To: andyh@compnews.co.uk (Andrew Hird) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 14:18:48 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Andrew Hird" at Dec 18, 95 06:06:20 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Andrew Hird stands accused of saying: > > Has anyone got any advice on setting up FreeBSD as a router, especially > what ethernet cards/hardware setup you'd recommend for the faster > possible network throughput. > > Any other interesting snippets of knowledge would be gratefully accepted! Go for PCI cards based on the DEC DC2104x chips; check around, I believe that there are cards with up to four of these onboard, making for a very effective router solution. > Andy Hird -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[