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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!gmi!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.world.net!merix.merix.com!troyc From: troyc@merix.merix.com (Troy Curtiss) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1R as a routing system Date: 22 Sep 1994 18:44:30 GMT Organization: Merix Corporation Lines: 21 Message-ID: <35sjaf$bqp@pdx1.i.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: merix.com Does anybody out there have experience using two FreeBSD 1.1.5.1R boxes to link two remote sites' ethernets. The scheme I have in mind would have a PPP connection over a fast (28.8Kbps most likely) modem to form the WAN. Local to each site there is a pre-existing ethernet that each box could be tied into and do the appropriate routing. This seems like it would be an easy task for TCP/IP traffic, as I have done this from my home--work PC's running FreeBSD. Also, since these two machines would probably be doing little more than routing, what is the minimum configuration (within reasonable performance dimensions of course) that one could get by with. Would a 386 w/ 4MB suffice. I am assuming of course that I will have a 16550 UART card and a 3c503 Elink II network card in each machine. My last question regarding this is if one could route Banyan Vines traffic also? I don't know nearly as much about banyan traffic as I do TCP/IP, so if anybody knows if than can/has been done, I would like to know more. Thanks in advance.. Troy Curtiss, HW/SW Engineer, Merix Corp. troyc@merix.com