From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 8 11:18:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA14501 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 11:18:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA14491 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 11:18:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA05860; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 11:19:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 11:19:29 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: Scott Rothgaber cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Router In-Reply-To: <199902081759.MAA18114@s1.easley.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Scott Rothgaber wrote: > 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) Based on this diagram a default route pointing to WAN A, a handful of static routes pointing to WAN B and your FR customers and the automatic routes setup when you ifconfig your nics should take care of everything. No BGP required. > 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. man route :) There shouldn't be any differences between how it's done on BSDI and FBSD. Your wan supplier probably has some utilities for managing the wan cards that you'll have to get from them. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message