From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 13 7:26:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nautilus.shore.net (nautilus.shore.net [207.244.124.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D0A614FEE for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 07:26:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rothenberg@automationonline.com) Received: from shore.shore.net [192.233.85.136] by nautilus.shore.net with esmtp (Exim) id 11QX3y-0006lg-00; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:26:34 -0400 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by shore.shore.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id KAA00594; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:26:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from baffle. automationonline.com by slider.automationonline.com via SMTP (911016.SGI/911001.SGI) for shore!FreeBSD.ORG!freebsd-questions id AA01148; Mon, 13 Sep 99 10:29:55 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19990913102557.00754970@slider> X-Sender: rothenberg@slider X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:25:57 -0400 To: gryph@mindless.com From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: Re: Firewalls [Was: Re: HW requirements] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <37D9FFC6.C895A926@mindless.com> References: <3.0.3.32.19990907141928.010f27c8@slider> <3.0.3.32.19990910095518.00729a94@slider> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:07 AM 9/11/99 -0700, gryph@mindless.com wrote: >Michael Rothenberg wrote: >> >How fast is your internet link? >> >> I have no idea. Cable modem goes to the cable company };) so I am assuming >> its at least 112k. Hopefully more. Calling them is no help as its always >> 'Um.. yeah you can do that, I think... but I have no idea how...sorry' >> Thought about DSL, but its too expensive for what I am doing now, basically >> web surfing and playing around. Maybe later when I get a web server up. > >I believe cable modem technology is up to 36Mbps, but your cableco or >ISP (@home, roadrunner, etc) probably has a bandwidth cap on it. > >I haven't built a gateway for a cable modem before, but I would >expect that a P100, and a pair of quality PCI NICs (I personally >recommend 3c905B-TX's) would be enough performance. Did you get a >cable modem kit with an ethernet card? If so, what brand and model? > > I did not get a cable modem kit. My provider (RCN) told me to go get a network card and put it in. After waiting for 6 weeks a guy came by pluged a nifty little white box with lights in it into the wall and the card, did some quick SW stuff , and boom that was that. I asked him how hard it was to set up my other PC if I just wanted to unplug the cables and swap around and he pulled up a property page and said, "Just copy the numbers and you are set." have not tried it, but it appears easy (beware of things appearing easy). I am using all 3Com NICs. The two w95 PCs have XL's and the FBSD box will have.....um.. I forget. Whatever comes in the home networking kit 3Com does that has the 10/100 cards. I figure that I basically have two matched pairs of cards so if one pair doesn't work in the FBSD box then I can swap around and see what happens. The home kit also came with a 4 port hub so I will be trying something like (bad text art to follow): _____|_____ | | |Cable Mod.| |__________| | | _____|_____ | | | FBSD BOX | <- Gateway/Firewall |__________| | | _____|_____ | | | 4P HUB | |__________| | | | | | | __|__|__|___ <-Sub Net Mixed FBSD and MicroSloth 9X/NT All cableing will be cat 5 if that makes a difference? Have a nice day! -Michael, the net inept To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message