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Date:       25 Nov 2002 14:51:27 +1300
From:      Andrew Thompson <andy@fud.org.nz>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   150 VLANS??
Message-ID:  <02Nov25.145155nzdt.119050@homer.fire.org.nz>

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Hi,


I have been given the task of providing broadband Internet for a new
apartment building. There are about 150 apartments and I am trying to
think of the best way to tackle this one.  The one condition is that I
am able to track usage for billing purposes (simple byte count will do).

The first option that sprung to mind was to just have one big lan with
router, but there are concerns about security.  

My next idea was to buy four cisco 48-port switches and have each port
on a seperate vlan, then create 150 vlan devices on FreeBSD and use ipfw
or ipf to count the bytes on each vlan device.

Can anyone tell me if this is feasable? or am I doomed to fail?


thanks

Andrew


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