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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!nntp-hub3.barrnet.net!mars.hyperk.com!darkstar!cmott From: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as router Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 19:48:39 -0700 Organization: SRVnet, Inc. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970217194526.3402A-100000@darkstar> References: <5daaes$9sd@gatekeeper.cso.com> <5dcfk9$ia@verdi.nethelp.no> <nM5lHRa@quack.kfu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ras517.srv.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: cmott@darkstar In-Reply-To: <nM5lHRa@quack.kfu.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35655 On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Nick Sayer wrote: > This wasn't the question in the original thread, but let me just mention > that I made a 386 into an ISDN router for a friend of mine and it is > doing very well indeed. His ISP only gives him 3 bits of subnet mask, so > he has 6 addresses, but more machines than that. So 5 of his machines > (and the router) live in the routable space, and we put a 10.0.0.x > alias on the Ethernet card. The machine routes the cross-subnet traffic > (he wants all of the machines to talk to each other (yes, it doubles the > net load)), does http proxy for the 10.0.0.x machines, and does > dial-on-demand PPP for the routable net. All of this on hand-me-down > hardware - an 8M 386 (no 387), a 2 port serial card, and an IDE drive. > > The rest of his house is all Microslop (he has The Implant, I'm afraid), > but it makes me sleep better at night knowing he couldn't get a P-Pro > NT machine to do what such a whimpy FreeBSD box can so easily manage. A 386 running FreeBSD should make a good router for ISDN and T1 bandwidths. It is cost-effective and very flexible. I'm not sure the 386 can keep up with full ethernet bandwidth (I see 200 to 400 kbytes/sec throughput on my system). Charles Mott