From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 21 22:39:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10A3337B422 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 22:39:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13cFAt-0000RP-00; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:50:39 -0600 Message-ID: <39CA90BF.8DEC13D0@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:50:39 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: low-cost/low-speed HDLC WAN card References: <5.0.0.25.0.20000921123747.05ec3600@mail.Go2France.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Len Conrad wrote: > > I'm back again looking for a low-cost, 128 kbits/sec WAN card, even > ISA, single-port with HDLC V.35/X.21/V.11/EIA530. I need this to > drive leased-line links in France. > > etinc.com's got a 10-year-old model 5025 ISA card but it's $475 and 2 > megabits. We use two now in our ISP and it works fine, but to use > FreeBSD in a big nationwide VPN/IPsec project, we need to keep the price down. > > We can buy a Zyxel 153X WAN router for about that price, but it > doesn't do VPN nor more than one ethernet i/f nor does it's > non-loggable, limited packet filtering come anywhere near ipfilter. This may sound heretical, but have you considered using the router AND a FreeBSD firewall? Last I checked, ethernet cards to plug into the router and the local net(s) are quite inexpensive. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message