Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 16:08:56 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Bob McConnell <rvm@CBORD.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD based router ... Message-ID: <20080528140856.GA30599@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <FF8482A96323694490C194BABEAC24A002C70391@Email.cbord.com> References: <18493.25160.836101.941905@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <FF8482A96323694490C194BABEAC24A002C70391@Email.cbord.com>
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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:51:35AM -0400, Bob McConnell wrote: > From: Robert Huff > > Bob McConnell writes: > > > >> >>> define what "enterprise level router" is > >> >> > >> >> Something that doesn't say 'Vista capable' on the box? > >> > > >> > so get 486, 16MB RAM, needed amount of network cards, install > FreeBSD > >> and > >> > configure :) > >> > > >> > (pentium may be needed for full 100Mb/s capability) > >> > >> Finding a box with that enough PCI slots might be problematic. > > > > Six slots X quad-port network cards = 24 interfaces. > > If you need more than that, it's probably worth investing in > > specialized hard-/software. > > > Robert Huff > > Where did you find a box with six slots? Motherboards (in standard ATX format) with six PCI slots are not all that difficult to find. If you include PCI-E and PCI-X in 'PCI' it is even easier, but there certainly exist ones with six normal 32-bit/33MHz PCI slots as well. Today it is not very common, but if you look at older socketA boards it was actually fairly common. (The Asus A7V8X-X is one example of such a board, but there were several others.) (Putting a total of 6 quad-port NICs on a single PCI-bus would totally swamp that bus though, so if one were to actually use so many NICs I would rather recommend e.g. the Asus P5BP-E/4L motherboard. It has 3 PCI slots and 3 PCI-E slots in addition to the four gigabit LAN ports included on the motherboard - so you can get a total of 28 ports if you fully populate all slots with quad-port NICs (not counting any USB-connected ethernet ports one might add.) It also has built-in graphics so one does not need to waste one slot on a graphics card.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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