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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as router
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This wasn't the question in the original thread, but let me just mention
that I made a 386 into an ISDN router for a friend of mine and it is
doing very well indeed. His ISP only gives him 3 bits of subnet mask, so
he has 6 addresses, but more machines than that. So 5 of his machines
(and the router) live in the routable space, and we put a 10.0.0.x
alias on the Ethernet card. The machine routes the cross-subnet traffic
(he wants all of the machines to talk to each other (yes, it doubles the
net load)), does http proxy for the 10.0.0.x machines, and does
dial-on-demand PPP for the routable net. All of this on hand-me-down
hardware - an 8M 386 (no 387), a 2 port serial card, and an IDE drive.
The rest of his house is all Microslop (he has The Implant, I'm afraid),
but it makes me sleep better at night knowing he couldn't get a P-Pro
NT machine to do what such a whimpy FreeBSD box can so easily manage.
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