Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:57:12 +0600 From: =?koi8-r?B?88HOxNnLwsHF1yDrwcrSwdQ=?= <kairatsan@rambler.ru> To: <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: compability Message-ID: <000c01c50e63$d6eee9e0$c902a8c0@omega>
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Good day! I am writing this letter after to much letter in Broadcom, but = they did't help me. So, in our company we planed to by router with 6 = optic 1000 Mb/s adapters and 16 Eth 100Mb/s with function: 1. routing 2. firewalling 3. vlans 2,3 level. Each optic adapter is connected to Nortel switch(BPS) wich have optic = module and that BPS connected by cascade to another BPS on on same = floor, because on every floor are about 100 users. 16 Eth adapters = connected in internal servers and connected to servers in DMZ. This = solution now is working on Passport 1200(Nortel) or just Accelar. But = this router have't firewallig. ON desktops of users installed the "BEST" = operating system Windows. To much our users working in Internet and have = ICQ and working with disks from outside and when somebody of PC infected = like for example Blaster or another ANTI MS viruses that PC genereating = very big traffic by net. Thats why before we asked from popular cisco = company how much price of router with function as I said above and what = you think they said us 190000$. It's unbeleavable! Of course I am like = administrator which love only freebsd (all our server like mail,www, etc = working only with OS FreeBSD) said ok let's take some small server with = 6 PCI or PCI-X slots and insert there optic NIC's and we will have = router level 7 with all functions as we need. So we find the server: = ProLiant ML570 with inserted HP NC6770 PCI-X Gigabit server adapter, = 1000-SX (chipset Broadcom 5701(h)). Our reseller not have this adapters = and for testing we need to buy them. But I think that much better asking = you about corresponding device to FreeBSD because your company can your = company nearly to Broadcom from me and your reseller can give you for = test this card. If your test will be unhappy can you say wich adapters = is compatible with FreeBSD. If every think will be OK I will go to cisco = and will say that we have another solution not expensive and 100 times = better than their. Please help me I very want to proof them that FreeBSD = more cool! With Best Regards, Kairat Sandykbayev. system administrator.
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