From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: don-lartc@isis.compsvcs.com (Don Cohen) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 18:59:28 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] On the question of how big a machine you need Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org A few days ago someone was asking whether 100MHz pentium was enough to do what looked like a small routing job. My guess at the time was that much less was needed but I didn't have any data. Now I do. I have a 486 acting as a firewall on a .5Mb DSL line. For what it's worth, dmesg says: Calibrating delay loop... 16.38 BogoMIPS Memory: 14572k/16640k I just scp'd about 15MB over that connection (took about 7-8 min) and watched the load average while it was happening. It converged to zero. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/