Re: FreeBSD as high speed router

2000-02-23 Thread Sergey Babkin
Martin Cracauer wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > Would be interesting to tell how you managed to produce a bootable floppy > > with the subsequent scripting that starts the OS and all that. > > The trick I used is that I have a custom `init` binary, which looks a

Re: FreeBSD as high speed router

2000-02-23 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 10:42:46PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > > > > On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > I'm thinking of using two PCI network cards. Fast Ethernet, no problem. > > > But FDDI, what card? > > > > fpa0: port 0xe400-0xe47f mem >0xfafd000

Re: FreeBSD as high speed router

2000-02-23 Thread Andreas Klemm
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 10:35:48AM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > A question to the network experts: > > I want to build a router between FDDI and Fast Ethernet > (possibly without creating a subnet - something like arp proxy > but that's more an IP issue; maybe someone can comment this a

Re: FreeBSD as high speed router

2000-02-23 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, At 13:41 23/02/00 +0100, Martin Cracauer wrote: >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christoph Kukulies >wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 11:42:14AM +0100, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > The thing is bootet from floppy and is a pure filtering router, no > > > NAT, no applications/server, no proxies (whi

Re: FreeBSD as high speed router

2000-02-23 Thread Martin Cracauer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 11:42:14AM +0100, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > The thing is bootet from floppy and is a pure filtering router, no > > NAT, no applications/server, no proxies (which is suicide on a > > firewall anyway). > > Would be intere

Re: FreeBSD as high speed router

2000-02-23 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> > I have a Firewall with quite some filtering that has a throughput of > > about 7MB/sec. It is a P-90 in a HX board with 32 MB and two fxp > > Interesting. > > > The thing is bootet from floppy and is a pure filtering router, no > > NAT, no applications/server, no proxies (which is suicide on

Re: FreeBSD as high speed router

2000-02-23 Thread Christoph Kukulies
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 11:42:14AM +0100, Martin Cracauer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > > A question to the network experts: > > > > I want to build a router between FDDI and Fast Ethernet > [...] > > CPU will be a PIII (something fast, 500 MHz). > > Do I nee

Re: FreeBSD as high speed router

2000-02-23 Thread Martin Cracauer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > A question to the network experts: > > I want to build a router between FDDI and Fast Ethernet [...] > CPU will be a PIII (something fast, 500 MHz). > Do I need much memory or would be 32 MB for the router purposes > sufficient? I have a F

Re: FreeBSD as high speed router

2000-02-22 Thread Nadav Eiron
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Wes Peters wrote: > > Can you still buy them? If so, what are they called now that DEC doesn't > > exist anymore? > > I think Compaq has always sold them under their own label though I've > never had my hands on any to verify

Re: FreeBSD as high speed router

2000-02-22 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Wes Peters wrote: > Can you still buy them? If so, what are they called now that DEC doesn't > exist anymore? I think Compaq has always sold them under their own label though I've never had my hands on any to verify this. I'm pretty sure that some 3com boards are actually O

Re: FreeBSD as high speed router

2000-02-22 Thread Wes Peters
"Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > I'm thinking of using two PCI network cards. Fast Ethernet, no problem. > > But FDDI, what card? > > fpa0: port 0xe400-0xe47f mem >0xfafd-0xfafd,0xfafee000-0xfafee07f irq 4 at device 6.0 on pci0 > fpa0: DEC

Re: FreeBSD as high speed router

2000-02-22 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > I'm thinking of using two PCI network cards. Fast Ethernet, no problem. > But FDDI, what card? fpa0: port 0xe400-0xe47f mem 0xfafd-0xfafd,0xfafee000-0xfafee07f irq 4 at device 6.0 on pci0 fpa0: DEC DEFPA PCI FDDI SAS Controller fpa0: FDDI