From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 6 09:29:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA27268 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 09:29:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sand.sentex.ca (sand.sentex.ca [206.222.77.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA27263 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 09:29:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gravel (gravel.sentex.ca [205.211.165.210]) by sand.sentex.ca (8.8.6/8.8.3) with SMTP id MAA00287 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 12:33:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970706122919.026d6320@sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.2 (32) Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 12:29:19 -0400 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Building a multiport router out of FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, We are going to be upping our connection to the net to 5Mbps in the near future. Our upstream provider is going to provide us with a managed CISCO that we will have no access to unfortunately. Since we have fairly complex routing requirements, we need some sort of multi port router in the office. Considering I can build a Pentium 133 with a 4 Ethernet cards for around $1200 Canadian (~$800 USD), this is significantly cheaper and in some ways provides many advantages over a dedicated multiport router. I was wondering if anyone else out there have a similar setup ? Would a Pentium 133 with 32meg of RAM be enough memory and CPU horse power? I imagine it would have 2 100Mbp ethernet cards and probably 3 10Mb ethernet cards in it and I would manage the routing via gated. We are only single homed and do not require EBGP. The box would act as a dedicated router with the firewall features enabled in the kernel. ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) * To do is to be -- Nietzsche Sentex Communications Corp, * To be is to do -- Sartre Cambridge, Ontario * Do be do be do -- Sinatra (http://www.sentex.net/~mdtancsa) *