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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:53:50 -0800
To: Craig Metz <cmetz@inner.net>, mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
From: Mike Thompson <miket@dnai.com>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router 
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At 04:59 PM 3/27/99 -0500, Craig Metz wrote:
>  What really matters here is the application.
>
>If the original poster was thinking about using FreeBSD-based 
>commidity PCs for the core routers of a large ISP...

Sorry, I should have defined high-capacity better.  I would like to
isolate a half-dozen FreeBSD servers running a custom distributed
web application behind a router/firewall.  This is to increase 
security for intra-machine communication.  At our co-location 
facility we have a 100Mb ethernet tap to a Cisco switch/router 
combination isolating our systems on a VPN.  My question is about 
whether FreeBSD can keep up as a router (with a few firewall rules) 
between two 100Mb ethernet networks on decent hardware such as 2 PCI 
NICs and a 450 MHz PII.  From the responses it sounds like it can.

I am interested in using FreeBSD as the router/firewall because it
is easy to configure and I don't have to learn something new on
top everything else I am doing.  

Thanks to everyone for their responses.

Mike Thompson




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