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Re: Routers, switches, and
networking hardware
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Lee Shackelford wrote:
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> Good afternoon, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. Is anyone aware of any brand name
> of router, switch, or other similar networking hardware that is based on
> any variant of the BSD operating system? Any comments are appreciated.
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http://ww
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 15:52, Nick Evans wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2010, at 18:05, Kurt Buff wrote:
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>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 14:46, Lee Shackelford
>> wrote:
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>>> Good afternoon, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. Is anyone aware of any brand
>>> name
>>> of router, switch, or other similar networking
On Mar 26, 2010, at 18:05, Kurt Buff wrote:
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 14:46, Lee Shackelford
wrote:
Good afternoon, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. Is anyone aware of any
brand name
of router, switch, or other similar networking hardware that is
based on
any variant of the BSD operating system?
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 14:46, Lee Shackelford
wrote:
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> Good afternoon, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. Is anyone aware of any brand name
> of router, switch, or other similar networking hardware that is based on
> any variant of the BSD operating system? Any comments are appreciated.
> Yours truly,
Good afternoon, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. Is anyone aware of any brand name
of router, switch, or other similar networking hardware that is based on
any variant of the BSD operating system? Any comments are appreciated.
Yours truly, L e e _ S h a c k e l f o r dAT d o t dot c adot
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cono...@rahul.net (John Conover) writes:
> Some of the popular wireless routers have an option to email
> access/security logs to an account on the Internet. When enabled, the
> logs contain the last 24 bits of the MAC address of the router's cable
> modem port, (the rest could
Some of the popular wireless routers have an option to email
access/security logs to an account on the Internet. When enabled, the
logs contain the last 24 bits of the MAC address of the router's cable
modem port, (the rest could be guessed since the brand name is
included in the email,) and
reeBSD box into the ADSL router, skipping the wireless router.
Your wireless devices will still be double-NATted, but if you're not
running servers on them, you might be able to live with that.
Luke,
Thank you very much, your advices were very helpful and I now have a working
port forwarding thro
to be solved.
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> C) Plug the FreeBSD box into the ADSL router, skipping the wireless router.
> Your wireless devices will still be double-NATted, but if you're not
> running servers on them, you might be able to live with that.
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Luke,
Thank you very much, your advices were ve
B) Disable NAT on the wireless router. This allows it to be a simple switch
and wireless access point. The price is that you're probably relying on the
DHCP server in the wireless router for your wireless devices and you'll have
to disable the DHCP when you disable NAT. This creates new probl
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Jakub T wrote:
Good day people,
I'm trying to get wireless Internet access for my laptop and to use this
wireless router as a switch for my FreeBSD box at the same time. This
wireless router has one Internet plug and for Ethernet plugs for wired
boxes. Now I have this si
Good day people,
I'm trying to get wireless Internet access for my laptop and to use this
wireless router as a switch for my FreeBSD box at the same time. This
wireless router has one Internet plug and for Ethernet plugs for wired
boxes. Now I have this situation:
INTERNET
|
telephon
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Yeah, but even though the router has customizable values for this
range, and issues a warning when i try to change them, it still
doesn't change them when I click "yes" on the warning. It is
pre-configured to 10.0.0.2-10.0.0.253
I could of
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>> Yeah, but even though the router has customizable values for this
>> range, and issues a warning when i try to change them, it still
>> doesn't change them when I click "yes" on the warning. It is
>> pre-configured to 10.0.0.2-10.0.0.253
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>> I could of course use 10.0.0.
You will have to shutdown the router's DHCP. Probably disable it
permanently and assign this function to a machine.
The DHCP of the router also sends you the following information (besides
IP address):
- DNS Server(s): Either the ones used by your ISP (consult its website)
or its own addres
#x27;s DHCP. Probably disable it
> permanently and assign this function to a machine.
> The DHCP of the router also sends you the following information (besides
> IP address):
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> - DNS Server(s): Either the ones used by your ISP (consult its website)
> or its own address (i.e. 10.0.0.
ondition, when a
>> client asks for an IP address?
>>
>
> You will have to shutdown the router's DHCP. Probably disable it permanently
> and assign this function to a machine.
> The DHCP of the router also sends you the following information (besides IP
> address):
>
>
ter's DHCP. Probably disable it
permanently and assign this function to a machine.
The DHCP of the router also sends you the following information (besides
IP address):
- DNS Server(s): Either the ones used by your ISP (consult its website)
or its own address (i.e. 10.0.0.1). Most rou
Hi, list!
I have a private home network, on an ADSL2+ connection to the
internet. The home network is behind NAT, all automatically set up
by the router/dhcp server/wlan access point/adsl modem that I got
from my ISP. It's a Thomson SpeedTouch 585 router.
Now, on this network, most of the comput
es that make sense?
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Since they are both using dhcp, your ability to use dhcp to configure
the interfaces is limited solely by the configurability of the dhcp
servers. In general most out of the box consumer routers hand out a
default route and there's not a lot you can do about that,
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> > Is it possible to run two routers? I have an ADSL modem 192.168.1.1 and
> a
> > wireless router 192.168.2.1. The both are accessed using dhcp. I would
> > like to be able to switch from one the the other, or have both
> avail
> Is it possible to run two routers? I have an ADSL modem 192.168.1.1 and a
> wireless router 192.168.2.1. The both are accessed using dhcp. I would
> like to be able to switch from one the the other, or have both available.
> Is this possible?
If I understand you correctly, you c
At 03:01 PM 10/16/2007, lysergius2001 wrote:
Hi
Is it possible to run two routers? I have an ADSL modem 192.168.1.1 and a
wireless router 192.168.2.1. The both are accessed using dhcp. I would
like to be able to switch from one the the other, or have both available.
Is this possible?
Thanks
Hi
Is it possible to run two routers? I have an ADSL modem 192.168.1.1 and a
wireless router 192.168.2.1. The both are accessed using dhcp. I would
like to be able to switch from one the the other, or have both available.
Is this possible?
Thanks
On Apr 18, 2007, at 1:18 PMApr 18, 2007, Sean Murphy wrote:
I am looking to automate the process of backing up my Cisco routers
and switches config files and have come across RANCID. Is this
what I should use on my FreeBSD server or is there something better?
Thanks
I don't
Hello:
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I am looking to automate the process of backing up my Cisco routers and
switches config files and have come across RANCID. Is this what I
should use on my FreeBSD server or is there something better?
Thanks
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>Subject: Re: need some advice on our cisco routers..
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>Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
>>> We have a couple of cisc
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> Subject: Re: need some advice on our cisco routers..
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> Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
> >> We have
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
>> We have a couple of cisco routers. There was one time when suddenly we
>> cannot
> login remotely via telnet. I investigate further and was shocked when I found
> out that there where 16 telnet connections coming from outsiders ip
> addre
The best practice I follow for securing routers, is to disable any remote
access unless remote access is really necessary. If remote access is
required, I always limit the access to a small number, usually 1-3 remote IP's.
It is also a good idea to enable remote logging to keep a reco
> 3. How do you secure your cisco routers in your office?? Our
> director said that we should look for best practices in securing
> our routers.
The very first step would be to limit where from you can telnet to the
router. There is no good reason why whole internet could telnet to t
Hi,
We have a couple of cisco routers. There was one time when suddenly we cannot
login remotely via telnet. I investigate further and was shocked when I found
out that there where 16 telnet connections coming from outsiders ip addresses.
I immediately called our Director(the only cisco
LiQuiD wrote:
Hi all,
I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com
in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact
flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a
hard drive. Has anyone successfully been able to install FreeBSD
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 01:54:33PM -0800, Luke wrote:
> To go off on a bit of a tangent here, I find the idea of replacing hard
> drives with flash memory intriguing. When I first heard someone talk
> about doing this several years ago, the idea was quickly shot down by
> people saying that fla
On Sunday 31 October 2004 21:54, Luke wrote:
> > If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using
> > old computers I have some general tips for you:
> > 1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use
> > a CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc.
> > http://www.cfide.co.
Luke wrote:
If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using
old computers I have some general tips for you:
1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use a
CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc.
http://www.cfide.co.uk/compact_flash_ide_adapters.shtml
To go off on
If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using old
computers I have some general tips for you:
1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use a CF card,
Zip Drive/Disk, etc. http://www.cfide.co.uk/compact_flash_ide_adapters.shtml
To go off on a bit of a ta
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 11:38:02PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
Here is a better idea!
Step 1: Go dumpster diving for old computers (Pentium 1 or better, 8MB
IDE Storage Device or better, and a minimun of 48MB/Ram).
Step 2: Grab some networks cards wail your in the dum
At Sun, 31 Oct 2004 it looks like Emanuel Strobl composed:
> Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman:
> > Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
> > be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
> > PCMCI
On Sunday 31 October 2004 01:45, LiQuiD wrote:
> I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com
> in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact
> flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a
> hard drive. Has anyone successf
On Oct 31, 2004, at 1:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 08:24:06PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
IIRC one set of scripts and utilities for creating a minimal FreeBSD
for Soekris is called "MiniBSD."
You probably mean nanobsd, on FreeBSD 5.X:
/usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd
Thats ni
On Saturday 30 October 2004 07:45 pm, LiQuiD wrote:
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> I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com
> in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact
> flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a
> hard drive. Has anyone s
old laptops to
> > > be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
> > > PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector
> > > on the motherboard is fine, of course.) I don't want to run
> > > XWindows, and I'm su
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 08:24:06PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> IIRC one set of scripts and utilities for creating a minimal FreeBSD
> for Soekris is called "MiniBSD."
You probably mean nanobsd, on FreeBSD 5.X:
/usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd
Cheers,
cpghost.
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On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 11:38:02PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> Here is a better idea!
> Step 1: Go dumpster diving for old computers (Pentium 1 or better, 8MB
> IDE Storage Device or better, and a minimun of 48MB/Ram).
> Step 2: Grab some networks cards wail your in the dumpster.
> Step 3: Ins
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 03:20:39PM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
> be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
> PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on
> t
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Shipping & Handling is $27.50 per unit though.
Nikolas Britton wrote:
Paul Hoffman wrote:
Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
PCMCIA Ethernet
Paul Hoffman wrote:
Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on
the motherboard is fine, of course.) I don't want to run XWi
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:12:19 +0200
Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman:
> > Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
> > be used as temporary routers. They just need to be
On Oct 30, 2004, at 7:45 PM, LiQuiD wrote:
I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com
in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact
flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a
hard drive. Has anyone successfully been ab
Hi all,
I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com
in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact
flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a
hard drive. Has anyone successfully been able to install FreeBSD on one
of th
Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman:
> Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
> be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
> PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on
> the mother
Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on
the motherboard is fine, of course.) I don't want to run XWindows,
and I'm
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Kevin Stevens wrote:
On Aug 18, 2004, at 01:40, Dino Vliet wrote:
@home we have a cable internet connection and I want
to attach a router to it to be able to share the
internet connection of 1 standalone winxp pc and a
laptop running freebsd 4.10
The cable connection uses dhcp
need this, I do
want a product which is capable of doing that:-)
I'm not aware of any router/firewall products which don't offer port
forwarding, though sometimes it's called something different. Which
Netgear product are you referring to?
What are the best freebsd compatible route
ng that:-)
What are the best freebsd compatible routers?
Will te fact that I use freebsd on my laptop be a
serious constraint?
Brgds
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Here is something that gave me uphill for a long time which I thought I
might share with anyone who is interested.
The problem was the traffic was too much for the one line so we installed a
second line.
How to divert all the http 80 stuff down the second line using a second box
as a proxy?
Do you have a section for supported routers?
Thank's
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--- "J. Seth Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> First, and I know this is off-topic, is anyone here happy with their
> router enough to recommend it? I'd prefer to go with a hardware router,
> but I prize reliability and stability apparently higher than the current
> crop of manufacturers. Eve
end" hardware like this? If so,
> what were your results?
>
> Also, can a FreeBSD router support things like the Vonage VOIP box (the
> Cisco ATA186)?
>
> Thanks,
> Seth Henry
I personally would go with FreeBSD as a router. I have been used both a 200Mhz
P1 and a 300Mhz P2
uter is going to significantly outperform any of those
cheapo routers. Which are mostly running either a custom Linux or
something similar on a 386 or 486 equivalent. Of course, the issues with
them tend to be either buggy proprietary code or flaky hardware. Even a
P100 running FreeBSD will easil
On Thursday 14 August 2003 09:57 am, Jason Stewart wrote:
> I've even heard of people using 486's as firewalls, but havent tried
> it myself.
Many of the SOHO routers use 486-system-on-chip solutions.
--
David Kelly N4HHE,
> What I'm not sure about is performance. Has anyone built a cable modem
> gateway router using FreeBSD and "low-end" hardware like this? If so,
> what were your results?
>
I'm using mine for DSL on a PII 333 and I've not seen any performance
problems other than some that were the ISP's fault (rece
J. Seth Henry wrote:
Hello,
I have recently been having problems with my Netgear RT314 broadband
gateway router. Having decided to replace it, I started searching for a
new router - only to discover that every sub $300 router I found had a
history of problems. Lockups, random reboots, or worse, th
, the (old) machine never uses more than 1 or 2% CPU -
including interrupt servicing. It moves along nicely.
The reason that I tend to prefer "soft" routers is that if you need extra
functionality, it's usually very easy to add it. A friend just replaced a
FreeBSD box with a Linksy
> Based on prior discussions regarding minimal hardware, I think the main
> thing to pay attention to is the type and brand of network cards you
> are going to be using. I would stay away from those interrupter from
> hell rl0 cards. You won't be able to budge a 30-40 dollar pentium box
Agreed.
"low-end" hardware like this? If so,
> > what were your results?
> >
> > Also, can a FreeBSD router support things like the Vonage VOIP box (the
> > Cisco ATA186)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Seth Henry
> >
>
>
> Well, a FreeBSD router is g
On Thursday 14 August 2003 09:50 am, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> > What I'm not sure about is performance. Has anyone built a cable
> > modem gateway router using FreeBSD and "low-end" hardware like
> > this? If so, what were your results?
I'm using openbsd now but have ran freebsd as a router with mi
> As a Note, the top end routers out there, Junipers, run JunOS, which is
> a FreeBSD variant. A Juniper M160 can route OC192's at wire speed
> (That's 10Gb/s folks).
However, the way those are set up, FreeBSD doesn't do the actual routing,
as far as I can remember they u
Hello,
I have recently been having problems with my Netgear RT314 broadband
gateway router. Having decided to replace it, I started searching for a
new router - only to discover that every sub $300 router I found had a
history of problems. Lockups, random reboots, or worse, they would just
turn int
On Thursday 14 August 2003 12:33 pm, J. Seth Henry wrote:
> Wow, I think you guys have convinced me. I have had very good luck
> with FreeBSD on an 933MHz EPIA board. It has performed well, and
> remained stable for several months now. Nary a single lockup, even
> under load (though it doesn't like
Kenneth Culver wrote:
As a Note, the top end routers out there, Junipers, run JunOS, which is
a FreeBSD variant. A Juniper M160 can route OC192's at wire speed
(That's 10Gb/s folks).
However, the way those are set up, FreeBSD doesn't do the actual routing,
as far as I can remem
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003, Kenneth Culver wrote:
>> As a Note, the top end routers out there, Junipers, run JunOS, which is
>> a FreeBSD variant. A Juniper M160 can route OC192's at wire speed
>> (That's 10Gb/s folks).
>
>However, the way those are set up, FreeBSD does
> I personally would go with FreeBSD as a router. I have been used both a
> 200Mhz P1 and a 300Mhz P2 as routers with out problems. I personally
> have really liked being able to ssh into it su to root and change what
> ever I want to. It makes for a really flexible system.
>
> B
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:26:57AM +, DanB wrote:
> I made an error in routing table alias added 10.0.0.1 to either net port
> that had an standard outside IP on it also. It made 3 other router go
> down I could ping them but they wouldn't route. The SSH on all boxes
> went down.
> Is there
I made an error in routing table alias added 10.0.0.1 to either net port
that had an standard outside IP on it also. It made 3 other router go
down I could ping them but they wouldn't route. The SSH on all boxes
went down.
Is there an central connection for SSH somewhere? Could the old admin
lin
of tutorials varying in
depth. I hope that helps
Colin.
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From: "Kevin Berrien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: IPSec Tunnel w/Racoon between BSD boxes - linksys routers
To answ
> To answer my own question, looks as if 7000, 7002, 500. Or just 500?
Well if you can, try with port 500 and see if it works.
BTW I guess you shouldn't use AH encryption since it's putting the host IP
address in the packet and it's passing through a router so on the other side
it will deny the p
To answer my own question, looks as if 7000, 7002, 500. Or just 500?
Kevin Berrien wrote:
I'm looking for tunnel between two 4.8-stable boxes using
IPSEC/Racoon. However, both boxes are protected by Linksys
cable/router's. Thus, the BSD
boxes are behind the routers. I took a gene
I'm looking for tunnel between two 4.8-stable boxes using IPSEC/Racoon.
However, both boxes are protected by Linksys cable/router's. Thus, the BSD
boxes are behind the routers. I took a general gandor through the docs,
websites... through which ports would this traffic flow.. a
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