From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael 'Moose' Dinn" Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 11:59:15 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Is Linux based Router feasible Message-Id: <20040708115915.GS22108@blend.twistedpair.ca> List-Id: References: <40ED304D.9000107@svw.com> In-Reply-To: <40ED304D.9000107@svw.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org > >I've a local LAN consisting of about 150 machines. I'm using a Linux > >machine as the gateway machine which inturn connects to two different > >ISPs. My question is can a Linux based machine match the performance of a How fast is your internet connection? A Pentium 133 will happily run wire speed for 10M ether, and most places don't have 10M of incoming bandwidth... for reference, we have a Duron 800 running 3 net connections for a total of about 10M with virtually no load. -- Michael 'Moose' Dinn, Twisted Pair Network Consulting Incorporated dinn@twistedpair.ca // 902 423 4700 (voice) // support@twistedpair.ca _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/