Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 23:26:59 +1000 (EST) From: Gavin Cameron <gavin@ormond.unimelb.edu.au> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: 'making' a router using a PC and FreeBSD Message-ID: <199605191327.XAA08063@gateway.ormond.unimelb.edu.au>
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Hi, I'd just like to get other peoples opinions on using a PC running FreeBSD as a router versus a dedicated router. I'm going to need a router with 7 interfaces, which will all fit in a standard PC. The interfaces will all be 10Mbit, a mixture of UTP and fibre. It would be nice if the same machine could support 100Mbit in the future. I was thinking about the following PC configuration to solve my problem: Pentium (what speed will I need?) 32MB ram (open to suggestions here) 4 PCI ethernet cards 3 ISA ethernet cards ISA Video card 1 gig disk I know you can get multiple ethernet ports on some cards these days, do people recommeend these? if so which ones? I'll be sticking to 2.1.0 on this machine as I will need high reliability. Once 2.2 is released I'll be running that on this machine. I'll have one 10Mbit feed to the net, will a PC be able to sustain 10MBit throughput? I'll be doing IP firewalling and accounting on this machine, as well as running a DHCP server, apart from that it'll be shuffling packets. I look forward to your thoughts. Thanks very much, Gavin gavin@ormond.unimelb.edu.au
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