From owner-freebsd-net Sun Mar 28 18: 6:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77A071548B for ; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 18:06:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA04774; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 19:05:44 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36FEDFF7.59509D60@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 19:05:43 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Thompson Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router References: <4.1.19990326233717.009c8210@mail.dnai.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Thompson wrote: > > This is probably a stupid question (not that it ever stopped > me before), but is a FreeBSD system capable of running as a > high-capacity Internet router? Define "high-capacity." If you mean routing 10 Fast Ethernet channels into an ATM OC-12, the answer is "not without a lot of custom hardware and software." If, on the other hand, you're talking about routing an internal network or two into a garden-variety single-point connection to the internet, say anything up to about T3/E3, sure. Too many internal network interfaces may tend to swamp the system with interrupts, but other than that, a FreeBSD router should work fine. > I would like to run a number > of FreeBSD servers running a web application behind a FreeBSD > system acting as a router/firewall. Any examples of web sites > doing this would be great. You could buy a nice network switch and use the FreeBSD machines for what they're REALLY good at - providing services. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message