From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Schwartzkopff Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 12:36:45 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Is Linux based Router feasible Message-Id: <200407081436.54840.misch@multinet.de> 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Dr. Michael Schwartzkopff MultiNET Services GmbH Bretonischer Ring 7 85630 Grasbrunn Tel: (+49 89) 456 911 - 0 Fax: (+49 89) 456 911 - 21 mob: (+49 174) 343 28 75 PGP Fingerprint: F919 3919 FF12 ED5A 2801 DEA6 AA77 57A4 EDD8 979B -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA7T/lqndXpO3Yl5sRAibAAJ4ry5FZzG9FzegzRoYVPOwrFPUnmgCg4Exj V1cFpNNp7XuPa3RpKnETQ38=EVdY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/