From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 2 2:58:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from omnix.net (omnix.net [195.154.168.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CFF9A37C0D4 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 02:58:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from didier@omnix.net) Received: (qmail 3489 invoked by uid 200); 2 Mar 2000 10:58:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Mar 2000 10:58:15 -0000 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:58:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Didier Derny To: Kris Kirby Cc: lluisma , "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Tuning: FreeBSD as static router with 6 fast ethernet cards In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG what dual 10/100 ethernet card do you suggest ? I've tried the adaptec board 4x 10/100 but it was a disaster (very expensive and impossible to put 2 boards at the same time) On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Kris Kirby wrote: > > I have this opportunity to use freebsd as a router serving 15 subnets > > with six fast ethernet cards(will do aliasing to support all 15 subnets) > > supporting about 1,200 PCs running windows. In addition, this freebsd > > router will also run samba 2.0.6( to act as local master browser for > > all subnets) and ipfilter and nothing else. All PCs are connected to > > switches with 10/100 mbit ports. > > Might be better to use three dual 10/100 ethernet cards. > > ---- > Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. > | > ------------------------------------------------------- > "God gave them the ability to reproduce... > ... Science gave us the hope they won't." -KBK > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message