From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Nov 24 17:52:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE13637B401 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 17:52:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from fire.org.nz (firewall.fire.org.nz [203.97.144.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E1843E4A for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 17:52:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andy@fud.org.nz) Received: by homer.fire.org.nz id <119050>; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:51:55 +1300 Subject: 150 VLANS?? From: Andrew Thompson To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <02Nov25.145155nzdt.119050@homer.fire.org.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 25 Nov 2002 14:51:27 +1300 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message