From owner-freebsd-net Sat Mar 27 11:40:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A637A14C3E for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 11:40:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.57.41]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA3539; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:40:07 +0100 Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (abaddon@daemon [192.168.0.1]) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA82576; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:40:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990326233717.009c8210@mail.dnai.com> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:40:09 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Mike Thompson Subject: RE: FreeBSD as a router Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 27-Mar-99 Mike Thompson wrote: > This is probably a stupid question (not that it ever stopped > me before), but is a FreeBSD system capable of running as a > high-capacity Internet router? I would like to run a number > of FreeBSD servers running a web application behind a FreeBSD > system acting as a router/firewall. Any examples of web sites > doing this would be great. We do so for a 2 Mbit line at work, the line gets the data in through a Cisco and then gets through 100 Mbit to the FreeBSD firewall/router. Had an uptime of avg 300 days before we had to shut it down due to UPS relocation. Otherwise it reacted very well... HTH, --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The idea does not replace the work... Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message