Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:53:50 -0800 From: Mike Thompson <miket@dnai.com> To: Craig Metz <cmetz@inner.net>, mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Message-ID: <4.1.19990329115145.00a62ab0@mail.dnai.com> In-Reply-To: <199903272156.VAA08726@inner.net> References: <Your message of "Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:40:24 GMT." <36fd12fb.3761327633@mail.sentex.net>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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