[SunRescue] Re: Help!

[Paul Sladen]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> You also can't get enough performance out of a 486 any more for anything
> more than a dial-up connection anyway, particularly if you want to do
> any serious amount of IP filtering, NAT, etc.  I ran my cable modem
> connection on a 486DX2-66 router for a while but it was just too damn
> slow, even with the most modern DMA-driven ISA ethernet cards I could
> find.  It worked OK, but could never give me full transfer rates.

a) biggest load on my 486sx25 router is starting up the perl script to
   update the dynamic DNS
b) Spoke to Rusty Russell (author of the Linux NAT/Filtering Code) and
   does speed testing on a 386 with two etherlink3's

RR: "Do you have GigE"
    "No"
RR: "Next question please"


Paul
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