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From: Michael Schwartzkopff <misch@multinet.de>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Is Linux based Router feasible
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 12:36:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200407081436.54840.misch@multinet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40ED304D.9000107@svw.com>

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Am Donnerstag, 8. Juli 2004 13:59 schrieb Michael 'Moose' Dinn:
> > >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.

Well, it depends if you also want to encrypt your traffic (VPN). See 
http://www.suse.de/~garloff/linux/FreeSWAN/
for ipsec performance sheets.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-08 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-08 11:42 [LARTC] Is Linux based Router feasible Sudheer Divakaran
2004-07-08 11:42 ` Catalin BOIE
2004-07-08 11:53 ` Jeff Green
2004-07-08 11:59 ` Michael 'Moose' Dinn
2004-07-08 12:22 ` Abraham van der Merwe
2004-07-08 12:23 ` Laurence Arabia
2004-07-08 12:24 ` Peter Surda
2004-07-08 12:36 ` Michael Schwartzkopff [this message]
2004-07-08 12:39 ` Sudheer Divakaran
2004-07-08 22:31 ` Joshua Snyder

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