From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 5 07:26:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA10099 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 07:26:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from max.phys.uu.nl (max.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA10092 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 07:26:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from P.Dekkers@gromit.eu.org) Received: from tijger.phys.uu.nl (tijger.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.72]) by max.phys.uu.nl (8.8.7/8.8.7/hjm) with ESMTP id QAA30387 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 16:26:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from gromit.eu.org (root@anx1p30.accu.uu.nl [131.211.249.40]) by tijger.phys.uu.nl (8.8.7/8.8.7/hjm) with ESMTP id QAA18408 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 16:26:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gromit.eu.org (8.9.1/8.8.7/psd) with SMTP id LAA00204 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 11:06:29 +0200 Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 11:06:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: Paul Dekkers Reply-To: Paul Dekkers To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: replace linux by freebsd? Message-ID: X-Mood: :-) but almost |-| (sleeping) Organization: Me and organized? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi My current Linux server with a 2.0.34 kernel with masquerading and RedHat 4.1 and dhcpd 2.0b6 keeps crashing after at about 1 day. I really don't know why (I just changed power supply after a crash, the distribution (because of the filesystem crash caused by the power crash), network card (because it was broken), and dhcpd (instead of bootpd, I want to support dhcp)...) My idea was to try FreeBSD. I have good experiences with FreeBSD as a normal server, but not as a router, which this server actually does, and not just routing, also masquerading. I believe that's the best part of the Linux kernel when I compare it with FreeBSD's. I tried natd once on my home machine, and found out that it was very processor eating, and didn't work that fast and that good as masquerading, but I have no further experience with it. Next problem, and that's the main reason I'm writing this list for, are the networkcards. Here's a list of cards in the machine: Device Type Bus Interrupt IO eth0 3c509 ISA 11 0x320 eth1 ne2000 PCI 12 0x6200 eth2 ne2000 ISA 7 0x300 eth3 ne2000 PCI 9 0x6000 (recently replaced) eth4 ne2000 PCI 10 0x6100 eth5 ne2000 ISA 5 0x340 Is this at all possible under FreeBSD? And with my current CD-set, 2.2.1, can I still use all of these cards, and route between them, and do natd for all of the networks via eth0 (for about 50 clients max at a time I think)... By the way, the machine is a pentium-60, with 16 Mb's of memory (It was running fine for a year of two with slackware 3.1, and bootpd, but since the network card went defect, the problems kept coming... and never went away... (can there be some hardware failure?)) Thank you for any help, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message