From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 9:10:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14AF537B406 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:10:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from deter.dk (port74.ds1-oebr.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.49.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34BBB43E6E for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:10:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vchit-list@deter.dk) Received: (qmail 97176 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Oct 2002 16:04:29 -0000 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:04:29 +0200 From: Morten Grunnet Buhl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: advise on gateway-setup Message-ID: <20021002160429.GC96783@deter.dk> Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE on a i386 X-Uptime: 3:29PM up 23 days, 1:28, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey all, I have been using FreeBSD as desktop and server for over two years now. However, my knowledge on buying hardware to and setting up a gateway is very limited. Actually I have only toyed around with this in the security and comfort of my own home. Ok. After this little self promo its time for my questions. The building I live in has 200+ apartments which in near future will share an (I hope) powerful internet connection. Now I was put in-charge of selecting the equipment to preform firewalling and gateway. What I like it to do is firewalling and some sort of natted intranet with bandwidth management. My question is. How powerful should the gateway/firewall be? I am thinking about CPU and RAM and hardware en general. Also I would be glad to get pointers on where to read for setting up this..ofcause I will start whit the handbook right about here http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking.html and then go to google But if anybody has seen other documents/articles/manpages I should read please point me to em, this could really safe me some time, thanks. -- DetEr.dk - Rules are made to control the fun. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message