Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:38:53 -0800 From: "Derek Jewett" <djewett@snowcrest.net> To: "Mike Thompson" <miket@dnai.com>, "Craig Metz" <cmetz@inner.net> Cc: "Mike Tancsa" <mike@sentex.net>, <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Message-ID: <001001be7a2c$8c2a6190$8daa4ed1@ws2600>
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If it's consilation we are building a pretty unique solution with a FreeBSD 3.x box using multi port cards.. We are using ETC's ET/5025pq-4-25 card (4-port v.35 cards), along with 4-port Ethernet NIC (adaptec Quartet64) to create a multi port router/firewall/switch/thingamajig.. We stole the idea from Nokia's IP440 switch concept. Just we don't use Firewall-1, we use FBSD native utilities... For info on the Cards; ETC - www.etinc.com/et5025pq.htm Quartet64 - www.adaptec.com and search for Quartet64 the 4-port NIC is about $540 and the 4-port v.35 T1 card is about $1600 with cables -----Original Message----- From: Craig Metz <cmetz@inner.net> To: Mike Thompson <miket@dnai.com> Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>; freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Monday, March 29, 1999 12:57 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router >In message <4.1.19990329115145.00a62ab0@mail.dnai.com>, you write: >>Sorry, I should have defined high-capacity better. I would like to >>isolate a half-dozen FreeBSD servers running a custom distributed >>web application behind a router/firewall. This is to increase >>security for intra-machine communication. At our co-location >>facility we have a 100Mb ethernet tap to a Cisco switch/router >>combination isolating our systems on a VPN. My question is about >>whether FreeBSD can keep up as a router (with a few firewall rules) >>between two 100Mb ethernet networks on decent hardware such as 2 PCI >>NICs and a 450 MHz PII. From the responses it sounds like it can. > > If you're using FreeBSD as a firewall between servers and the Internet, what >really matters here is not the 100Mb/s local links but the speed of your WAN >link, because that's how much traffic is really going to move through that box. >Can FreeBSD keep up with a T1/E1 line? I'd be surprised if it couldn't. Can >FreeBSD keep up with a DS3? Given good enough hardware, probably. Faster than >that as total traffic going through the box and you need to worry. > > -Craig > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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