Hi Brooks,
> No matter what you do that's going to add overhead. You'd certaintly
> be better off with a pair of Gigabit ethernet adaptors. The netgear
> ones are under $300US.
Thanks for your comment, and you're completely correct.
The reason I'm doing what I'm doing is that I have these boxes in to
build firewalls on (hence the large number of interfaces--we have a
fairly complicated network).
I'm trying to do a feasibility study of using FreeBSD boxes to do some
IPSec stuff, and so I'm trying to get a feel for:
FreeBSD will do it easily using boxes just like these
FreeBSD looks like it's CPU bound, so if we buy dual-processor
boxes it can probably do it
the cost of a box that could do what we want is so expensive
we should look at other solutions.
However, this is largely (at this stage) a curiosity thing and so I
have to use existing hardware, so shelling out ~ $600US for stuff
that may finish up sitting on a shelf is not realistic.
Cheers,
Tony
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