small but expensive. used 486-pentium hardware is for free.
486 hardware with three NICs, a CF drive, and run off of a few watts of DC
power tend not to free.
that's the adventage. but edimax 6104K router with 5 ethernets running
netbsd is both cheaper smaller and faster with it's 175Mhz
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
Does anyone know of anyone make an enterprise level router based off of FreeBSD?
In all seriousness, if you want to roll your own based on FreeBSD, I
have a couple of these units that I've been testing internally with that
run FreeBSD off of a thumb drive.
They are
Steve Bertrand wrote:
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
Does anyone know of anyone make an enterprise level router based off
of FreeBSD?
In all seriousness, if you want to roll your own based on FreeBSD, I
have a couple of these units that I've been testing internally with that
run FreeBSD off of a
On May 29, 2008, at 1:36 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
that's the adventage. but edimax 6104K router with 5 ethernets
running netbsd is both cheaper smaller and faster with it's 175Mhz 2
instr/cycle MIPS CPU. 16MB RAM+2MB flash isn't much but enough to fit.
I will keep that in mind the next
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Ability to route several C-class networks through multiple incoming fiber
connections using BGP4, including VLAN support ... we're trying to keep the DC
as 'FreeBSD centric' as we can, which is why the interest in someone like
Juniper vs going
Does anyone know of anyone make an enterprise level router based off of FreeBSD?
define what enterprise level router is
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Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Does anyone know of anyone make an enterprise level router based off
of FreeBSD?
define what enterprise level router is
Something that doesn't say 'Vista capable' on the box?
:)
Steve
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FreeBSD?
define what enterprise level router is
Something that doesn't say 'Vista capable' on the box?
so get 486, 16MB RAM, needed amount of network cards, install FreeBSD and
configure :)
(pentium may be needed for full 100Mb/s capability)
Bob McConnell writes:
define what enterprise level router is
Something that doesn't say 'Vista capable' on the box?
so get 486, 16MB RAM, needed amount of network cards, install FreeBSD
and
configure :)
(pentium may be needed for full 100Mb/s capability)
Finding
From: Robert Huff
Bob McConnell writes:
define what enterprise level router is
Something that doesn't say 'Vista capable' on the box?
so get 486, 16MB RAM, needed amount of network cards, install
FreeBSD
and
configure :)
(pentium may be needed for full 100Mb/s
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:51:35AM -0400, Bob McConnell wrote:
From: Robert Huff
Bob McConnell writes:
define what enterprise level router is
Something that doesn't say 'Vista capable' on the box?
so get 486, 16MB RAM, needed amount of network cards, install
FreeBSD
Wojciech Puchar
define what enterprise level router is
Something that doesn't say 'Vista capable' on the box?
so get 486, 16MB RAM, needed amount of network cards, install FreeBSD
and
configure :)
(pentium may be needed for full 100Mb/s capability)
Finding a box with that enough PCI
From: Jerry B. Altzman
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Erik Trulsson
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(Putting a total of 6 quad-port NICs on a single PCI-bus would
totally swamp
that bus though, so if one were to actually use so many NICs I would
rather
recommend e.g. the Asus P5BP-E/4L
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:31:24AM -0400, Jerry B. Altzman wrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(Putting a total of 6 quad-port NICs on a single PCI-bus would totally swamp
that bus though, so if one were to actually use so many NICs I would rather
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(Putting a total of 6 quad-port NICs on a single PCI-bus would totally swamp
that bus though, so if one were to actually use so many NICs I would rather
recommend e.g. the Asus P5BP-E/4L motherboard. It has 3 PCI slots and
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:31:24AM -0400, Jerry B. Altzman wrote:
And all this just to *pass packets*; if you're making real *routing*
decisions based upon that (i.e. you're making a router rather than a
switch), which
Bob McConnell wrote:
I don't need that many Ethernet ports, but I do need most of those PCI
slots. I was unable to locate a box with more than four slots and a
warranty that was acceptable to our Production group. I'm still not sure
about the warranty or that we can buy it in a case with power
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On Tue, 27 May 2008 22:28:35
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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:08 AM
(pentium may be needed for full 100Mb/s capability)
Finding a box with that enough PCI slots might be problematic.
not true. 5 PCI slots isn't uncommon+ISA slots. ISA slot is OK for video
card (easy to find in scraps ;).
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Finding a box with that enough PCI slots might be problematic.
Six slots X quad-port network cards = 24 interfaces.
If you need more than that, it's probably worth investing in
specialized hard-/software.
Robert Huff
Where did you find a
And all this just to *pass packets*; if you're making real *routing*
decisions based upon that (i.e. you're making a router rather than a
switch), which requires that packets take a trip to the CPU, you'll
packet headers
find yourself coming to the realization that Cisco and Juniper might
These guys have a 2 or 4 port nic for $100:
http://www.soekris.com/lan16x1.htm
Try Ebay for the Adaptec ANA-6944-TX. It's a 4 port based on the old DEC
chipset (de driver) Usual can be had for = $10.
but prepare for problems connecting this with other devices. usually works
well with
They are very expensive.
A Juniper is not based on FreeBSD. It uses FreeBSD as the
control interface. The actual routing happens in specialized
ASICS that Juniper custom-builds.
good for multiple gigabits traffic or more. for lower speed - not worth
of.
On May 28, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Rob wrote:
These guys have a 2 or 4 port nic for $100:
http://www.soekris.com/lan16x1.htm
For small and medium sized enterprises that really just need firewall,
NAT, static routing and are fine with 100Mb ether on the router, I've
been happy with using
For small and medium sized enterprises that really just need firewall, NAT,
static routing and are fine with 100Mb ether on the router, I've been happy
with using soekris net48XX boxes using m0n0wall
http://m0n0.ch/wall/
or pfsense
http://www.pfsense.com/
both FreeBSD based.
small but
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
On May 28, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Rob wrote:
These guys have a 2 or 4 port nic for $100:
http://www.soekris.com/lan16x1.htm
For small and medium sized enterprises that really just need firewall,
NAT, static routing and are fine with 100Mb ether on the router, I've
been
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
been happy with using soekris net48XX boxes using m0n0wall
small but expensive. used 486-pentium hardware is for free.
No it's not, they consume electricity. Soekris boxes are designed for
low-power. I had a 4501 and now have a 5501.
On May 28, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
For small and medium sized enterprises that really just need
firewall, NAT, static routing and are fine with 100Mb ether on the
router, I've been happy with using soekris net48XX boxes using
m0n0wall
small but expensive. used
Tom Van Looy wrote:
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
been happy with using soekris net48XX boxes using m0n0wall
small but expensive. used 486-pentium hardware is for free.
No it's not, they consume electricity. Soekris boxes are designed for
low-power. I had a 4501 and now have a 5501.
And, other
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Tom Van Looy wrote:
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
been happy with using
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:56:55PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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Does anyone know of anyone make an enterprise level router based off of
FreeBSD?
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That would be Juniper
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Does anyone know of anyone make an enterprise level router based off of
On Tue, 27 May 2008 22:28:35 -0400, Matthew Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:56:55PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
Does anyone know of anyone make an enterprise level router based off of
FreeBSD?
Juniptor makes routers based on freebsd. Sorry for the spelling
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Does anyone know of anyone make an enterprise level router based off of
FreeBSD?
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