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by **gunn..** » Wed, 22 Jan 1997 04:00:00

Hey FreeBSD Lovers! :)

As I noticed that FreeBSD O/S can run as low-cost PC Router.

I'm interested to know what hardware requirement(s) of PCRouter by
FreeBSD? I see mostly 486 or Pentium motherboards and add some Ethernet
cards at all.

Which one best for PCrouter: IDE or SCSI hard drive? 500mb or 1.2 gb
SCSI or IDE HD? How much RAMs to runnin' the pcrouter? Or Am I miss
something require for pcrouter?

I know that pcrouter requires CSU/DSU, does the pcrouter can handle T-1
line? Is there any good CSU/DSU more affordable?

Any one out there who have PCrouter run by FreeBSD, any problems? so

by **Nigel Gor** » Thu, 23 Jan 1997 04:00:00

>As I noticed that FreeBSD O/S can run as low-cost PC Router.
>I'm interested to know what hardware requirement(s) of PCRouter by
>FreeBSD? I see mostly 486 or Pentium motherboards and add some Ethernet
>cards at all.
>Which one best for PCrouter: IDE or SCSI hard drive? 500mb or 1.2 gb
>SCSI or IDE HD? How much RAMs to runnin' the pcrouter? Or Am I miss
>something require for pcrouter?

I use a 386DX-40 with 8Mb and a 120Mb HDD to route between my coax network and
a PPP link to the Internet. The machine is also my mailserver.

It's not the fastest machine for general use, but certainly handles the
routing part very well.

Cheers

Nigel Gorry
http://www.palms.znet.net.au

by **Jason T. Nels** » Thu, 23 Jan 1997 04:00:00

>>As I noticed that FreeBSD O/S can run as low-cost PC Router.
>>I'm interested to know what hardware requirement(s) of PCRouter by
>>FreeBSD? I see mostly 486 or Pentium motherboards and add some Ethernet
>>cards at all.
>>Which one best for PCrouter: IDE or SCSI hard drive? 500mb or 1.2 gb
>>SCSI or IDE HD? How much RAMs to runnin' the pcrouter? Or Am I miss
>>something require for pcrouter?
>I use a 386DX-40 with 8Mb and a 120Mb HDD to route between my coax network and
>a PPP link to the Internet. The machine is also my mailserver.

>It's not the fastest machine for general use, but certainly handles the
>routing part very well.

As an experiment at an ISP I used to work for, I built an x86 router using
FreeBSD 2.1.0 (the latest -release at the time) hoping it would be able
to handle routing at least 2 T1's and 3 ethernets. I never actually figured
that this machine would be used as a production router, but as far as I
know, it is still in use at that ISP. I used a Micronics Pentium motherboard
(mainly so I could have 8 SIMM sockets) with a 90MHz P5 and 32Mb of RAM.
It was (maybe still is) running gated and doing RIP and OSPF. The sync serial
card was Emerging Technologies' ET2025 and it had a frame relay T1 attached
to it. Worked WONDERFULLY routing IP between the 3 ethernets and the T1; it
worked so well that I even put in the netatalk patches and it routed
DDP (AppleTalk) at the same time with no troubles. I highly recommend this
at least for experience's sake.

Now that I think about it (and now that I have 2.1.6-release), I would have
not used hard drives to store the OS and such. Perhaps Zip with several
identical backup disks for when the Zip cartridge died (for those whining
about moving parts). Either that, or get a PCMCIA adaptor and use flash
ATA hard drives..

--

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc Chelmsford, MA
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disclaimer: I speak for no one but myself.

by **Exedo** » Sat, 25 Jan 1997 04:00:00

>As an experiment at an ISP I used to work for, I built an x86 router using
>FreeBSD 2.1.0 (the latest -release at the time) hoping it would be able
>to handle routing at least 2 T1's and 3 ethernets. I never actually figured
>that this machine would be used as a production router, but as far as I
>know, it is still in use at that ISP. I used a Micronics Pentium motherboard
>(mainly so I could have 8 SIMM sockets) with a 90MHz P5 and 32Mb of RAM.
>It was (maybe still is) running gated and doing RIP and OSPF. The sync serial
>card was Emerging Technologies' ET2025 and it had a frame relay T1 attached
>to it. Worked WONDERFULLY routing IP between the 3 ethernets and the T1; it
>worked so well that I even put in the netatalk patches and it routed
>DDP (AppleTalk) at the same time with no troubles. I highly recommend this
>at least for experience's sake.

ok.. I have more of a beginners routing question. I'm trying to set up a
FreeBSD 2.2-BETA machine to route for my computer, and my roomates. I have a
10Base-T wall jack on one side, and a 5 port hub on the other. i have 2 16-bit
ethernet cards... configured as ed0 and ed1. I have routed set up (I'm not
sure of the differences between routed and gated.. so I just picked that one)
as well as IPXrouted. My only question is what I have to do now to get it to
accept packets coming into one netcard, and get them to send them out the
other. Right now I get messages every couple of minutes saying 'ed1 duplicated
by ed0'. My only guess is that I might need to change the subnet mask, but I
don't know enough about networking to do so. Here are my config lines from
sysconfig:

network_interfaces="ed0 ed1 lo0"
ifconfig_ed0="inet 198.82.88.119 netmask 255.255.255.0"

ifconfig_ed1="inet 198.82.88.119 netmask 255.255.255.0"

ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"

I've checked through the docs on the freebsd page.. and they all very cheerily
mention that it's easy to do what I'm trying to do with FreeBSD.. but none that
I've found tells me how to do it.

Thanks,
J.p.

by **Dave Littel** » Sat, 25 Jan 1997 04:00:00

> [deletia]
> ok.. I have more of a beginners routing question. I'm trying to set up a
> FreeBSD 2.2-BETA machine to route for my computer, and my roomates. I have a
> 10Base-T wall jack on one side, and a 5 port hub on the other. i have 2 16-bit
> ethernet cards... configured as ed0 and ed1. I have routed set up (I'm not
> sure of the differences between routed and gated.. so I just picked that one)
> as well as IPXrouted. My only question is what I have to do now to get it to
> accept packets coming into one netcard, and get them to send them out the
> other. Right now I get messages every couple of minutes saying 'ed1 duplicated
> by ed0'. My only guess is that I might need to change the subnet mask, but I
> don't know enough about networking to do so. Here are my config lines from
> sysconfig:

> network_interfaces="ed0 ed1 lo0"
> ifconfig_ed0="inet 198.82.88.119 netmask 255.255.255.0"

> ifconfig_ed1="inet 198.82.88.119 netmask 255.255.255.0"

You need a different IP address for either ed0 or ed1.

Dave

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FreeBSD as PC router?