Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 23:34:11 -0700 From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Clark Joel A1C AMC CSS <Joel.Clark@scott.af.mil>, "'net@freebsd.org'" <net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Routers and such Message-ID: <199906030634.XAA15154@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jun 1999 23:56:16 MDT." <37561900.31438124@softweyr.com>
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--==_Exmh_-1999846389P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Wes Peters wrote: > 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. That's true for one particular environment (small network attached to a consumer ISP, where everything goes through a single gateway). When I first read this question, however, I thought, "When you can't put all your hosts on a single subnet and you need to build an internetwork." I'm thinking of a campus network setting, and it's not clear to me which environment the original question was addressing. Cheers, Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1999846389P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBN1Yh46jOOi0j7CY9AQFSoAQAihzzd9yfoySxDMvIYghGlXnv0rZ1lVm8 snvy6js2GkmR3elTEIT1Fr/FlAjkDziNHvGHqI+BVwBHjTzdELbLJfrumXFV5uO5 SERw1BHENpXldJWfPpODMThUlC4muPgU4GXXcySenbJvDQWDVB1Q/L+AyEV1dc9P CZqpbFZXlKY= =RdDb -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --==_Exmh_-1999846389P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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