From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 4 15:32:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA24799 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 15:32:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from al.imforei.apana.org.au (pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au [202.12.89.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA24760 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 15:31:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pjchilds@localhost) by al.imforei.apana.org.au (8.8.0/8.7.3) id IAA27201; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 08:00:57 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 08:00:57 +0930 (CST) From: Peter Childs Message-Id: <199610042230.IAA27201@al.imforei.apana.org.au> To: jarekb@pap.waw.pl (Jaroslaw Bazydlo), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199609301140.NAA23668@cergowa.pap.waw.pl> you wrote: : FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE / 8M RAM and 32M of swap / 5 Ethernet Cards / : IP Filter 3.1.0 run in the system : This computer acts as a Ethernet router w/o problems but sometimes it hangs : up for a couple o secconds. I logfile I can see "ed2: device timeout" in : those moments. This could point to hardware problems. Ok I'll try to replace : it with the new one but... Yup.. I used to see these from a cheap-as-chips ne2000 until i replaced it with another (but slightly less cheap) :) : Does anyone know how to judge how much memory I need according to number o : Ethernet Cards (all are 10BaseT, UTP 10Mbit/s) ???? RAM shouldn't really be a problem with routing unless your running some sort of routing daemon stuff (like gated). : Which pocket filtering software is better Avalon's IP Filter or native : FreeBSD's ??? Well ipfilter is more flexible, and to paraphrase the discussion about IPFW that came up from the developers/maintainers of it "you can dress a sh*t in a suite, but no matter how you look at it its still a sh*t" Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object!