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From: jlemon@netcom.com (Jonathan Lemon)
Subject: FreeBSD as a firewall?
Message-ID: <jlemonD387IF.7sz@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 16:08:39 GMT
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I'm in the process of setting up a machine that will act as a firewall
for a client's internet connection. I have 2 questions:
- will a 486 EISA machine with 8M be sufficient to handle the
task of a firewall for a 56k link? (no IP forwarding, internal
to external connections handled by SOCKS, etc)
- is there some sort of card + driver for the PC that will handle
the input from a 56k frame relay link? Or is something equivalent
to a cisco 2501 required to convert the frame relay input to
ethernet packets which are then fed to the PC?
I really don't want to have to buy a router just to handle the frame relay
stuff, since all real routing will be done internally, behind the firewall.
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Jonathan jlemon@netcom.com