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Date:      Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:40:09 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Mike Thompson <miket@dnai.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD as a router
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990327204009.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990326233717.009c8210@mail.dnai.com>

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On 27-Mar-99 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?  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.

We do so for a 2 Mbit line at work, the line gets the data in through a
Cisco and then gets through 100 Mbit to the FreeBSD firewall/router.

Had an uptime of avg 300 days before we had to shut it down due to UPS
relocation. Otherwise it reacted very well...

HTH,

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven     <http://www.freebsdzine.org>; 
asmodai(at)wxs.nl        The idea does not replace the work...
Network/Security Specialist      <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
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