Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 12:29:19 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Building a multiport router out of FreeBSD Message-ID: <3.0.2.32.19970706122919.026d6320@sentex.net>
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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) *
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