Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:15:29 -0800 (PST) From: jbarbee@singular.com (John Barbee) To: Scott Rothgaber <scott@easley.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Router Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902081011230.17595-100000@server7.singular.com> In-Reply-To: <199902081759.MAA18114@s1.easley.net>
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well. basic unix routing is just done with the route command. if you really wanted you could just have a large static route table after compiling a kernel for all the devices and editing a couple of things in /etc/rc.conf. what other requirements do you have? RIP, OSPF. Would you ever need to check the status of your PVCs in your frame cloud? (Although I don't know if that could be done with FreeBSD). john. On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Scott Rothgaber wrote: > Good Afternoon... > > I'm a BSDI shop, but a WAN card vendor has *strongly* suggested > FreeBSD for my "Super Router" project, as I like to call it. It will > be a rack-mounted PC with 12 PCI slots and will be set up something > like this: > > NODE 1 -> WAN A (AT&T PTP T1 for bandwidth) > > NODE 2 -> WAN B (T1 to Bell South's FR cloud, used to sell above > bandwidth to other FR customers) > > NODE 3 -> LAN A (my accesss servers) > > NODE 4 -> LAN B (my UNIX boxes) > > NODE 5 -> LAN C (hosted UNIX boxes) > > ... > > Since I've always used an El-Cheapo, works-out-of-the-box router, I > have a *massive* amount of homework to do before I take this project > on. I'll want this new router to perform a lot of advanced magic. > > Finally, my question: Where can I find some in-depth documentation on > using FreeBSD for such a project (aside from `man gated'). Please > make suggestions that can be found on the Web, as I'm not running > FreeBSD yet. > > Thanks! > Scott > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > * * > * Easley Internet Solutions 864.859.2400 * > * Easley, SC USA (fax) 864.855.5864 * > * http://www.easley.net AIM: ExCavSGT * > * * > * Mail composed with Microsoft Outlook Express * > * or containing HTML will be automatically deleted * > * * > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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