Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 12:07:41 +1100 From: Michael Still <michaels@NATSEM.canberra.edu.au> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Michael Still <michael.still@NATSEM.canberra.edu.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewalls built with FreeBSD Message-ID: <3646405D.101D8DC7@natsem.canberra.edu.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811070115470.6949-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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We are a research centre at a University. I don't pay for the big pipe into the campus, and have very little to do with it. We have a dedicated firewall (a Cisco), but we also want to have another firewall, so that we can have a DMZ inbetween. We also consider it desirable to have radically different OS's on the two firewalls.\ Michael Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Michael Still wrote: > > > I have a question regarding firewalls built with FreeBSD. I have a > > Pentium 90 kicking spare, and want to put two 100 M ethernet interfaces > > into it and set it up as a firewall. I am just wondering what sort of > > through-put I can expect (at a maximum). > > > The problem is that we have a 45 M link into the building and I don't > > want to slow that down too much. > > If you're spending that much money for that big a link, spend the money > and get a *real* router too. A P90 barely cuts it for my house 100mbit > network. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org -- Michael Still, Network Manager, Natsem, University of Canberra, Australia Phone: 02 6201 2752 or +61414 382 568 Email: michaels@natsem.canberra.edu.au WWW: http://www.natsem.canberra.edu.au http://canberra.hotkey.net.au/~mikal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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