From owner-freebsd-questions  Mon Feb  8 10:15:37 1999
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA07407
          for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:15:37 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from server6.singular.com (server6.singular.com [204.140.208.6])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07395
          for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:15:32 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from jbarbee@singular.com)
Received: from server7.singular.com ([204.140.208.10])
          by server6.singular.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2
          release (PO205-101c) ID# 0-42397U400L100S0) with ESMTP id AAA329;
          Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:15:39 -0800
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
In-Reply-To: <199902081759.MAA18114@s1.easley.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902081011230.17595-100000@server7.singular.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

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