Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 12:26:55 +1100 From: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netgraph help(?) Message-ID: <200010090126.MAA15249@tungsten.austclear.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> of "Sun, 08 Oct 2000 18:15:30 PDT." <20001008181530.A20085@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Hi Brooks, > No matter what you do that's going to add overhead. You'd certaintly > be better off with a pair of Gigabit ethernet adaptors. The netgear > ones are under $300US. Thanks for your comment, and you're completely correct. The reason I'm doing what I'm doing is that I have these boxes in to build firewalls on (hence the large number of interfaces--we have a fairly complicated network). I'm trying to do a feasibility study of using FreeBSD boxes to do some IPSec stuff, and so I'm trying to get a feel for: FreeBSD will do it easily using boxes just like these FreeBSD looks like it's CPU bound, so if we buy dual-processor boxes it can probably do it the cost of a box that could do what we want is so expensive we should look at other solutions. However, this is largely (at this stage) a curiosity thing and so I have to use existing hardware, so shelling out ~ $600US for stuff that may finish up sitting on a shelf is not realistic. Cheers, Tony -- Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Systems Manager Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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