Re: [PLUG] Linux Firewall/Router Appliance

[Matt Ayres <matta@tektonic.net>]

Matt Ayres wrote:
> jimjawn wrote:
>
> > Are there any rackmount, embeded routing appliances that run on 
> > linux?  I'm basically looking for a 24 port switch or greater that I 
> > can ssh into and add static routes on a per port basis.  Is there 
> > anything out there like this for linux?  Alternatively, i could but a 
> > full size server and stick as many nics into the PCI/e slots as I can 
> > and setup routing per interface, but I feel like this would be 
> > overkill and that there would something that would be created for this 
> > specific purpose.
>
> Simply put the Linux box on a trunked VLAN port and then it can access 
> any VLAN via special network interfaces.. no need to have all those 
> network cards. You can then use VLAN's/ports on the switch to be your 
> "network cards".

-or- go get yourself a Cisco 3550.  It's a switch with software layer 3 
routing capabilities.  It's capable of limited BGP and tends to topple 
over routing >200Mbit/s of traffic.

Regards,
Matt


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