Re: [PLUG] Linux Firewall/Router Appliance

On 1/11/07, Matt Ayres < matta@tektonic.net> wrote:

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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