Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 08:00:57 +0930 (CST) From: Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au> To: jarekb@pap.waw.pl (Jaroslaw Bazydlo), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <199610042230.IAA27201@al.imforei.apana.org.au>
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In article <199609301140.NAA23668@cergowa.pap.waw.pl> you wrote:
: FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE / 8M RAM and 32M of swap / 5 Ethernet Cards /
: IP Filter 3.1.0 run in the system
: This computer acts as a Ethernet router w/o problems but sometimes it hangs
: up for a couple o secconds. I logfile I can see "ed2: device timeout" in
: those moments. This could point to hardware problems. Ok I'll try to replace
: it with the new one but...
Yup.. I used to see these from a cheap-as-chips ne2000 until i replaced
it with another (but slightly less cheap) :)
: Does anyone know how to judge how much memory I need according to number o
: Ethernet Cards (all are 10BaseT, UTP 10Mbit/s) ????
RAM shouldn't really be a problem with routing unless your running some
sort of routing daemon stuff (like gated).
: Which pocket filtering software is better Avalon's IP Filter or native
: FreeBSD's ???
Well ipfilter is more flexible, and to paraphrase the discussion about
IPFW that came up from the developers/maintainers of it
"you can dress a sh*t in a suite, but no matter how you look at
it its still a sh*t"
Peter
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