Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:01:56 -0500 (EST) From: Mike <mikey@kappaisle.com> To: Andy McConnell <amcconnell@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cisco Ethernet WAN module? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001131102130.32775-100000@greencreek.kappaisle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001130108180.34071-100000@neroon.houseofcats.org>
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Hi everyone, Thank you for all your resourceful and prompt replies. Actually we run FreeBSD servers to serve web, DNS, mail and files (with Samba), and they were servers I setup back then. I'm very grateful to have deployed FreeBSD to perform all those tasks because we never had any problem with them. On the networking side, we have been using Cisco products for a very long time. The performance and reliability are just outstanding, so we tend to stay with Cisco equipments for our network infrastructure. I've found a solution, and thank you all for your generous help! Sincerely, Mike ========================================== On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Andy McConnell wrote: > Mike - > > If you are going for cost effective, and you're asking on the FreeBSD > lists, your better bet is to go with a recylced Pentium with 2 ethernet > cards, and run FreeBSD and Gated. Not only do you get the low cost for > hardware, you get a free router, web site, DNS secondary, mail server, and > anything else you want to customize. Not to mention a free firewall and > natd (if you're into that sort of thing. :-) > > If this is a link between two offices, then you don't have to worry about > the tech support for end users. So, if someone has some basic working > knowledge of FreeBSD, your solution is the cost of two old machines. And > chances are, someone in your company needs an upgrade - oh, what to do > with that old PII-366 in the corner? :-) > > -Andy > > -- > Andy McConnell amcconnell@acm.org > > "First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what > can I say? I'm a night owl." > - M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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