From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Apr 15 12:17:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from hp9000.chc-chimes.com (hp9000.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4766F14E2D for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:17:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost by hp9000.chc-chimes.com with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA047953633; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:13:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:13:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola To: Phillip Grasso-Nguyen Cc: freebsd-isp Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Layer 4 Switch, In-Reply-To: <3715BC03.7171E828@magna.com.au> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Phillip Grasso-Nguyen wrote: > Would it be possible to use FreeBSD as a layer 4 switch, > > So it can do port redirection, and possible have 2 boxes for redundancy Sure. ipfw forward could do most(well, all) of the work of the port redirection. socket(1) (from the ports collection) can be used as well, at the cost of a fork() (or however inetd does it's thing, I don't feel like getting out my UNP book :>) for each connection. Redundancy however is another interesting question/. - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message