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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