From owner-freebsd-net Wed Jun 2 22:56:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A9114C8B for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 22:56:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id WAA17638; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 22:56:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id WAA29594; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 22:56:22 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA18547; Wed, 2 Jun 99 22:56:17 PDT Message-Id: <37561900.31438124@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 23:56:16 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Clark Joel A1C AMC CSS Cc: "'net@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Routers and such References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Clark Joel A1C AMC CSS wrote: > > When does a router become necessary? I assume since our private TCP/IP > works fine (firewall, natd, etc), that it isn't always necessary. A router is necessary when the machine you're using becomes to slow to handle the load. There's no reason why you can't just grab another FreeBSD machine and build a router on it. Even a P100 can easily keep up with DSL, Cable Modem, or T1 speeds. ISDN or analog modems are no problem, as long as you get good serial ports. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message