Date: Fri, 20 Dec 96 02:26:00 -0800 From: Mun Fai WONG <mfwong@mol.net.my> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Routing with FreeBSD Message-ID: <32ba69b71568002@molhub.mol.net.my>
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Hi net guru, I am pretty new to FreeBSD and already get to love it. Anyway, my question is, again as the case for security capability posted in another email, if I were to propose/recommend FreeBSD as a serious router for a company LAN, WAN and/or Internet purpose, I am mostly concerned with the following issues: - IPX support - the traffic load on an Intel DX4-100 CPU that will handle 3-4 Ethernet segments, basically I do not know where to get some benchmark figures to rate the packet per second throughput for a FreeBSD box configured to do just routing, ie serves no other purpose and hence running minimal number of processes. I realize that the number of LAN it routes among is not a good indication of the actual workload, but I just have to modelor compare it with a known brand such as Cisco or the like. Again, no implication of preference bias towards Cisco, but just the opposite and that is the reason I ask these dump questions. Has anyone fine-tune or customize a FreeBSD box to do just this sort of heavy-duty routing in a LAN and WAN environment and are willing to share some advise ? - how many ed interfaces can FreeBSD be configured to support ? From the LINT kernel config file and other it seems only ed0 and ed1, how about anything beyond 1 ? Thank you very mucho!
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