From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 28 19:04:36 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D7B106564A for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 19:04:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76F048FC13 for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 19:04:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D830E1104B7; Wed, 28 May 2008 15:04:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 28 May 2008 15:04:35 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: dW1EXK9owrscy57dw//MKRQ/iDWoIq7U9IEZO6prXOX+ 1212001475 Received: from hagrid.ewd.goldmark.org (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 363B6377D; Wed, 28 May 2008 15:04:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <80A74452-ABF0-43EC-92A0-1166C1281098@goldmark.org> From: Jeffrey Goldberg To: Rob In-Reply-To: <483D831A.7080000@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 14:04:34 -0500 References: <18493.25160.836101.941905@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20080528140856.GA30599@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <2b677bda0805280731x45fc2dd4ra62a2657e11641c1@mail.gmail.com> <483D831A.7080000@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Cc: Bob McConnell , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD based router ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 19:04:36 -0000 On May 28, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Rob wrote: > These guys have a 2 or 4 port nic for < $100: > http://www.soekris.com/lan16x1.htm For small and medium sized enterprises that really just need firewall, NAT, static routing and are fine with 100Mb ether on the router, I've been happy with using soekris net48XX boxes using m0n0wall http://m0n0.ch/wall/ or pfsense http://www.pfsense.com/ both FreeBSD based. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/