From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 28 22:23:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2278106566B for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 22:23:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C328FC14 for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 22:23:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 441DE10B6A5; Wed, 28 May 2008 18:23:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 28 May 2008 18:23:28 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: hTjf/MdukBtpSPLcLf9yF1mBCumHuve8larqhvgwWvU3 1212013407 Received: from hagrid.ewd.goldmark.org (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D5D03246C2; Wed, 28 May 2008 18:23:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: From: Jeffrey Goldberg To: Wojciech Puchar In-Reply-To: <20080528220808.G11389@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 17:23:26 -0500 References: <18493.25160.836101.941905@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20080528140856.GA30599@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <2b677bda0805280731x45fc2dd4ra62a2657e11641c1@mail.gmail.com> <483D831A.7080000@gmail.com> <80A74452-ABF0-43EC-92A0-1166C1281098@goldmark.org> <20080528220808.G11389@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.924) Cc: FreeBSD List Subject: Re: FreeBSD based router ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 22:23:29 -0000 On May 28, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> For small and medium sized enterprises that really just need >> firewall, NAT, static routing and are fine with 100Mb ether on the >> router, I've been happy with using soekris net48XX boxes using >> m0n0wall > small but expensive. used 486-pentium hardware is for free. 486 hardware with three NICs, a CF drive, and run off of a few watts of DC power tend not to free. But of course a free 486 box may very well fit your needs. Cheers, -j