From owner-freebsd-net Wed Jun 2 23:34:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from stennis.ca.sandia.gov (stennis.ca.sandia.gov [146.246.243.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F54514E7A for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 23:34:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@stennis.ca.sandia.gov) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by stennis.ca.sandia.gov (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA15154; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 23:34:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199906030634.XAA15154@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 04/14/1999 To: Wes Peters Cc: Clark Joel A1C AMC CSS , "'net@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Routers and such In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jun 1999 23:56:16 MDT." <37561900.31438124@softweyr.com> From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Url: http://www.ca.sandia.gov/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1999846389P"; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 23:34:11 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_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