--- "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
On 14 Aug 2003 10:39:55 -0400
"J. Seth Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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,
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.
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David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
===
> 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
At 2003-08-14T14:39:55Z, "J. Seth Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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?
Under full load, the (old) machine never uses more than 1
> 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.
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 floating point math much - [EMAIL PROTECTED] crashes
immediately)
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 upload a routing table to t
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 remember they upload
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 doesn't do the actual routing,
>as far
> 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.
>
> BTW I would suggest
Hello!
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote:
> I did not see any response to your post which addressed your questions.
> So I will give it a try.
>
Well, I received some answers, but I was a little busy to next letter to
the list. So I'm doing now. Thank you very much for all help. Now i
I did not see any response to your post which addressed your questions.
So I will give it a try.
You should look at man rc.conf or
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.conf
for details on
router_enable="NO"# Set to YES to enable a routing daemon.
gateway_enable="YES" # Activa
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