From owner-freebsd-net Mon Mar 29 16:51:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from sand2.sentex.ca (sand2.sentex.ca [209.167.248.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A5A014FBF for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:51:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from gravel (ospf-wat.sentex.net [209.167.248.81]) by sand2.sentex.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA14572; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:51:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.1.19990329195605.045c8520@granite.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtancsa@granite.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 20:00:35 -0500 To: Craig Metz , Mike Thompson From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, dennis@etinc.com In-Reply-To: <199903292051.UAA10838@inner.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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. The Etinc.com people make a HSSI card with FreeBSD drivers.. To quote " The ET/HSSI adapter adds 1 or 2 HSSI ports to PC-based routers. Both ports can run up to 52Mb/s, accommodating 2 full-rate DS3 circuits. The ET/HSSI 32-bit PCI architecture utilizes single-cycle bus-mastering technology to maximize throughput and efficiency." I have never used their high end cards, only a couple of their T1 cards. Perhaps dennis@etinc.com could comment on this, as he certainly would be a qualified contributor on this matter. ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa, Network Admin * mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications Corp, * http://www.sentex.net/mike Cambridge, Ontario * 01.519.651.3400 Canada * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message