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Subject: Re: T1 offc. resell config
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>On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, S(pork) wrote:
>
>> between a switching hub and a router rather blurry...  My concern is to be
>> able to make sure seperate clients on the same building feed can't see
>> each other at all...  I just can't seem to find an economical way to do
>> this...
>
>Get a motherboard that will handle 6 Network cards and build a FreeBSD
>Ethernet router. Use reverse twisted connections to connect only one
>customer per Ethernet port. This should be reasonably priced (cheaper than
>running a T1) and if you use ET's software you can control the bandwidth
>used as well.

A nice rackmount passive backplane box will do nicely...although it will
cost a little more. Still a lot less than the other alternatives.