No prob, I played a bit with PicoBSD and I don't like it that much.
on another newsgroup someone mentioned http://www.soekris.com/ and
microbsd. I think I'm going to place an order for one of the net4501
boards in a box thisweek and give that a whirl. I like the idea of a
hardware box (since thats what I would normally use for something like
this, but since it's my personal lines I've been experiementing) more
than a computer, but I also like all the nice tools that a good unix
install would allow. Thanks.
NB
> Sorry. I misinterpreted your question.
> The simple answer (and hopefully polite this time) is Yes it can be done.
> PicoBSD is essentially a set of smaller tools that work with the FreeBSD
> kernel. It is designed so you can put it on a very small 'disk'. It used to
> be small enough so that you could use a single 1.44mb floppy but the kernel
> is just to big for that now.
> > I never said I didn't know how to do it, I asked it anyone had done it
> > with PicoBSD. I have had several solutions in place, Cisco 1720,
> > OpenBSD box, FreeBSD box, and a Nexland pro800turbo. I wanted to try
> > picoBSD (which I have never used). You don;t need to know any more
> > than I put on there, for a simple 3 leg setup, you only need to know 2
> > WAN and 1 LAN. I didn't ask that you do it for me, if I did that I'd
> > not learn anything. There was no need for you to be such a negative
> > nancy. Not that I care really, thanks for the reply.
> > NB
> >> Nic,
> >> <rant>Your signature says you are a Network Engineer. Surely you can
> >> do this without needing to ask. Isn't that your job? What you have
> >> drawn is something you might find in a first year university course on
> >> networking.</rant>
> >> Put 3 NICs into the computer, enable your preferred firewall (ipfw,
> >> ipfilter), setup filters as you see fit, enable packet forwarding,
> >> setup routes to your three networks.
> >> You didn't mention where the two DSL lines go or what you actually
> >> want to do with the three connections.
> >> <rant> for a network engineer your question is certainly lacking any
> >> detail. </rant>
> >> message
> >> > Does anyone have experience with PicoBSD as a router? More
> >> > specifically as a dual WAN router? I need a quick and dirty solution
> >> > for this scenerio:
> >> > DSL1 DSL2
> >> > | |
> >> > \ /
> >> > ---- FW -----
> >> > |
> >> > |
> >> > Switch
> >> > |
> >> > Internal LAN
> >> > ------------------ -----------------
> >> > Nick Buraglio Network Engineer
> >> > National Center for Supercomputing Applications
> >> > ------------------ -----------------
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