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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!news1.digital.com!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!usenet From: Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Is old 33M 386 OK as IP router ? Date: 29 Aug 1995 00:12:18 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corp Lines: 92 Message-ID: <41tm12$6kf@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ozyd13-p3.ozy.dec.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc I am looking at setting up my daughters school with a local net and internet access. As there are a plethora of cheap second hand 386s on the market this seems like a reasonab way to go. After looking at some of the web sites and some of the newsgroups (alt.sex.* etc) it is obvious that I am going to have to severely limit what they have access to. The best way to do this would be to set up a FreeBSD box to act as a mail, news server and web proxy, kids are too smart and Windows ini files too easy to hack to prevent transparent access to the ISPs full base for long. UNIX may keep them stymied a little longer (I wonder for how long !!). The other thing I would like to do is to setup a separate admin net with the 386 also acting as the router between the student net and the admin net i.e. two ether cards and two subnets so that the admin net is safe from the students. I would also like to set up a couple of dialup modems so staff/students could dial up from home. Presumably I would use one of the multi serial port cards (say 4 ports, one for 115k ISP access and 3 say 19200 for dialup). The question is do you think that 33MHz 386 running FreeBSD with an ISA IDE controller and a couple of big IDE disks and a 4 port 16550 UART card could handle the thruput of a 115k serial connection to the ISP via a 28.8k modem as well as 3 dialup 19200 ports plus one or two ethernet cards (to route to the local nets) ?. Maximum load would be about 30 students plus less than 5 staff at any single time on the ether. The server would be acting a POP mail server for the local users as well as a NNTPD news server to Windows Eudora mail and Netscape news/web. I am unsure how to setup the proxy to only allow access to a limited number of web sites and it is possible that web access may have to be barred but any advice on this would be appreciated. If anyone has any experience with this sort of setup I would be very appreciative of your experience particularly in the filtering and proxy aspects. For example would it be better to us a router between the ISP and the server ? Also the aspect of Windows and remote printing via IP is proving a bit hairy at the moment if youve got any good solutions for this I would also be interested (Windows 95 is out of the question as fitting out with 30+ 486s each with 8M of memory is prohibitively expensive) so WFWG or 3.1 is to be the base user OS. Thanks Jon -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Dr Jon Jenkins Location: Digital Equipment Corporation NaC Voice/Fax: 61-7-55-75-0151/100 Burnett Place, Research Park, Inet: jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com Bond University, Gold Coast Close Proximity: "HEY YOU !!!" QLD, AUSTRALIA 4229 "Daddy, what's outside the Universe?" (My 5 year old.....) -----------------------------------------------------------------------