Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 14:13:25 -0700 (PDT) From: steve lasiter <slas7713@yahoo.com> To: free bsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: gateway configuration Message-ID: <20050807211325.62115.qmail@web33607.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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I am researching and accumulating information on setting up my small office network and using a FreeBSD Gateway/Firewall as my entry point. I am seeking general FreeBSD advise, know problems, and input on this topic. I currently have all the equipment up and configured and now I'm tying it all together. The computer I will be setting up as the the Gateway has FreeBSD 5.4 and is a PII 400MHz with 256MB Ram and 9 Gig HDD. I plan on putting two new ethernet cards in to ensure quality. Any advice on whether this seems sufficient if this machine is only serving as a Gateway. I understand a lot will depend on my rules and traffic so I may up the ram, or get another pc for it based on advice received here. Also, should I put a gigabit Ethernet card in my Gateway?-see below topic. I recently bought two new Dual Pentium 1.2GHz with SCSI's and both have gigabit ethernet ports along with the standard ethernet ports. I have the SMP Kenel configured and the boxes ready to go as a mail/web/database server and the other as a streaming video/ftp server. I have six boxes total and will be adding more. What is going to be the best way to take advantage of the gigabit ethernet ports on the big dual boxes? I read that FreeBSD had some issues with the gigabit ethernets earlier, are there still outstanding issues? Should I upgrade the other PC's to gigabit ethernet cards in order to take advantage of this or should I buy a switch with both port types and just mix and match? I'm sure one of you out there has worked these issue at some point and I need the usual expert advice I have consistently received from you guys. Thanks in advance, Dean Lasiter ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
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