From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 2 18: 6:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from crunch.shivakaul.com (unknown [166.84.151.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26C1337B401 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 18:06:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 49665 invoked by uid 0); 2 Feb 2001 07:17:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO taco) (192.168.0.2) by 166.84.151.100 with SMTP; 2 Feb 2001 07:17:57 -0000 Message-ID: <001101c08d86$b7c8d420$0200a8c0@taco> From: "shivak" To: "freebsd-questions2" Subject: switch and router recommendation Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 21:12:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm going to be building a two-segment 10/100 ethernet network. The basic setup will look like this: INTERNET ||| ROUTER------------- || || SEGMENT 1 SEGMENT 2 Segment 1 will be composed of desktop machines with 100Mbps ethernet interfaces. Segment 2 will have server machines (running FreeBSD, of course) which mostly run 100Mbps ethernet interfaces as well. Can anyone recommend a router (preferably brand name like Cisco, I have a p166 under my desk running as a router under openBSD and it looks like it is about to break apart. I would like something that I can rely on for the years to come)? It should be able to do NAT and firewalling, and I don't need any exotic options. Also, I need a good 16 port switch for the servers (it should have a gigabyte uplink, because I need the max amount of bandwidth between both segments). Has anyone had any good experiences with either? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message