From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 9 22:43:03 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F99106564A for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 22:43:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy3-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy3-pub.bluehost.com [69.89.21.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D68D8FC0A for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 22:43:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 29025 invoked by uid 0); 9 Jun 2011 22:43:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by oproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 9 Jun 2011 22:43:02 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=gBAiVfxQgexnD7/HNiEV9peg585KOKluQBWREwlV0nxxlbNetnOW1a0r+Q+MXa7StbasISvvMLOk64B/q8oCxcN3bwmEC/SAi9HXFSxGawZGRYkH0Z7KC0DhM62+ZEio; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QUnwK-0007iO-Sy for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:43:02 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:28:08 -0600 Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:28:08 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20110609222807.GA34570@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions References: <20110609005656.GA9183@thought.org> <15630_1307624948_4DF0C5F4_15630_82_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B43499BF89C4A2@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com> <20110609184829.GC33714@guilt.hydra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:43:03 -0000 --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 06:01:03PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: >=20 > Depending on your needs, Soekris, ALIX, or Netgate products could all wor= k.=20 > Most don't have large numbers of ports (2-5 built in are standard, and so= me=20 > have expansion capability), but can run some higher-level processing whil= e=20 > doing switching work. I appreciate the information. Unfortunately, while I can find products offered under these brands for sale on the Internet, this is not (as I mentioned) within my areas of expertise, so I'm finding the information about the products somewhat opaque. In many cases, it's not even obvious which of the products I find are suitable for building various types of network switches. Do you know of any Webpages that might help me rectify my dearth of understanding in this area? Thanks to the completeness of documentation such as the FreeBSD Handbook, learning how to build firewalls and routers is a relatively trivial exercise. Switches are another matter entirely. . . . --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk3xSPcACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVf2QCg86UYaMG2xfo7F5D1mL3eeS0J 4h4An0LbSJ1QJV6rHRQuJ96pNM/Df333 =43kG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc--