On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 06:01:03PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote:
Depending on your needs, Soekris, ALIX, or Netgate products could all work.
Most don't have large numbers of ports (2-5 built in are standard, and some
have expansion capability), but can run some higher-level processing while
doing switching work.
I appreciate the information. Unfortunately, while I can find products
offered under these brands for sale on the Internet, this is not (as I
mentioned) within my areas of expertise, so I'm finding the information
about the products somewhat opaque. In many cases, it's not even obvious
which of the products I find are suitable for building various types of
network switches. Do you know of any Webpages that might help me rectify
my dearth of understanding in this area?
Thanks to the completeness of documentation such as the FreeBSD Handbook,
learning how to build firewalls and routers is a relatively trivial
exercise. Switches are another matter entirely. . . .
A switch can also be called a bridge. FreeBSD seems to have built-in
facility for bridging. See:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/filtering-bridges/index.html
It isn't something I have any experience with, though.
Daniel Feenberg
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