[geeks] wtb: 2x sbus qfe

[Mike Nicewonger]

The QFE is not supported in the IPX IIRC.

Mike N


on 5/28/02 12:51 AM, alex j avriette at avriettea at speakeasy.net wrote:

> so i was complaining on #openbsd/efnet tonight trying to get my new
> gateway set up. basically i have three networks at home:
> 
> wireless: 10.1.2.x
> 100T: 10.1.3.x
> 10T: 10.1.1.x
> 
> additionally, there are boxes connected on their own interfaces to
> protect the rest of the network (in the case of a honeypot) or to
> provide a dedicated connection to a box (such as webserver -> database
> server). the average number of interfaces per box now exceeds 2.0. i
> also plan on adding a fddi/cddi network, a gige network, and HIPPI (two
> crimsons). more machines may mean additional purpose-driven (i.e.,
> fileserver, database, etc) networks.
> 
> one of the people there suggested that i take two ipx's (i just won two
> on ebay actually), put qfe's in each, and use them to do all the
> routing. the simplicity of it struck me. i think this is the right way
> to go. he was concerned that the ipx does not have enough backplane
> bandwidth to cope with it, and i mentioned that i have an ss10 that i
> have no idea what to do with. i could put two qfe's in the ss10, which
> is underpowered and has less resources than the ss20 i've been building
> up, install openbsd on it, and let it do all the routing/firewalling for
> the network. this would allow me to retire the two pc's currently doing
> the job, and let them do what sambo says is the only thing theyre fit to
> do: be cheap fileservers.
> 
> it would make me very very happy. i see qfe's on ebay for $100-150...
> anyone have a pair theyre trying to get rid of? or need the $$?