From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 7 8:28:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zogbe.tasam.com (cj45658-a.reston1.va.home.com [65.9.36.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 723CF37B40F for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 08:28:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clash@tasam.com) Received: from battleship (zogbe.tasam.com [10.45.45.5] (may be forged)) by zogbe.tasam.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with SMTP id f77FSKF30071; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:28:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <00b101c11f55$962a7290$0a2d2d0a@battleship> From: "Joseph Gleason" To: "Odhiambo Washington" , "FBSD-Q" Cc: References: <20010807181041.C35856@everest.wananchi.com> Subject: Re: Isn't it true? Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:28:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Odhiambo Washington" To: "FBSD-Q" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 11:10 Subject: Isn't it true? > Such a dumb subject line but isn't it true that nobody in the > knowledge-rich FreeBSD world has ever gone out of their 'mind' (I mean > their way) and done something like substituting a FreeBSD box for a Cisco > router like this: > Telco Link _____ > LAN<-->[____]----->[...]================[...]----->|_____|<----->LAN > FreeBSD Mainstreet Mainstreet Cisco > Box 2701 2701 2522 > > > If someone _ever_ tried it, I request to share in their feat ;-) Based on this diagram, it looks like you are running a telco link from 2701 Mainstreet to 2701 Mainstreet. I don't see the point of that really, but I'm sure telco would be happy to install it for you. As far as using a FreeBSD box to interface a T1 or something, certainly it can be done. Search around the lists for the hardware to support it. I personaly favor a Cisco or other hardware router for mission critical links (simply due to less moving parts), but a FreeBSD box should be able to do it just fine. I haven't done it myself, but I have setup many ethernet to ethernet freebsd routers (for firewalling or nat) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message