From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 9 23:25:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34B5F37B66E for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:25:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from localhost (scottj@localhost) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA24043; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:25:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:25:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Joseph Scott X-Sender: scottj@pebkac.owp.csus.edu To: Carroll Kong Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP over ATM In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000609225805.0377f640@email.eden.rutgers.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Carroll Kong wrote: > I noticed we have ip over atm options in the kernel. Can I use freebsd to > act as an ATM router? And, can I do multicast over ip over atm? I think > the current fore systems switches we have cannot do it. Either that or > some other weird flunky brand we got. Also, I know it is better to get > solid hardware that can do this, how well can freebsd act as a ATM router > (high end scale?). I have never done anything with ATM, but I do recall a Daemon News article, "Building an ATM Firewall with BSD". This may answer, or help with your questions. If not perhaps the author of the article may be able to provide pointers. The article is at : http://www.daemonnews.org/200003/atmfirewall.html --- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu The Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message