Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:31:14 -0400 From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) To: "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Routers - hardware received wisdom Message-ID: <199609191531.LAA12464@etinc.com>
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>>From owner-freebsd-isp@freefall.freebsd.org Wed Sep 18 12:04:46 1996 >>Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:23:06 -0400 >>X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com >>X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 >>Mime-Version: 1.0 >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >>To: Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk> >>From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) >>Subject: Re: Routers - hardware received wisdom >>Cc: isp@freebsd.org >>Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org >>X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > >On 18 Sept 1996 dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) was quoted as saying: >> Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk> asjed: >>>I'm going to be requiring two network routers, and since FreeBSD is more >>>than capable of the task, I figured I'd go for the cheap 486 option. >>> >>>One of these routers will be sat between a 2Mb/s leased line and a 10Mb/s >>>ethernet, and the other will be between 2 10Mb/s ethernets. >>> >>>As far as I can tell, FreeBSD 2.1.5, a PCI based 66MHz 486DX with 16MB RAM >>>and 2 DC201040 PCI network cards should be sufficient. >>> >>>But can I drop it any lower than that? Would the boxes be fine with 8MB >>>RAM? What about 33MHz machines? >> >>Its totally dependent on how much local ethernet traffic you have. If you will >>be switching lots of traffic locally, you might be unhappy with a 33Mhz box. >> >>But at today's prices, what are you going to save? $10.? Its not worth it. >>100Mhz processars are only $32 or so....you're spending more than that >>thinking about it. >> >>Dennis > >I think that Dennis' comment & what Joe said in his note answered a question >that I've had lurking in the back of my mind, "Just what is sufficient to run >a FreeBSD T-1 capable router?" > >Granted that a no-name MB & 133Mhz 486 is running around $120, but I >"happen to have" a 386/33, 8mb, 300mb disk sitting in the corner, with >an ethernet card in it (isa only :^,). And I have a need for a T-1 capable >box soon. Since it would be a fairly un-saturated T-1, I suspect that >I will be able to get away with it for a while... Then the question becomes, >how many 56/64k/128/256k frame relay links could a "little" box like that >handle? (Must be the Scots in me, I hate to throw away anything!) You could easily run 2 T1 on a 386....Joes machine has 2 ethernet cards in it, which adds an extra 10Mbs of bandwidth. Dennis
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