Re: tlug: Firewall machine - how fast for ethernet speeds

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Rex Walters wrote:

> >>>>> Scott Stone writes:  (on 25 Nov 98)
> 
> > yeah, routing isn't very cpu intensive.  I'd say either one would do it.
> > You could even do it with no hard disk, too.
> 
> Agreed.  Even 14 Mbps is only slightly more than a 10BT ethernet, which
> the 486 will certainly be able to handle.  (The 386 I'm not so sure
> about).
> 
> Check out the linux router project: "http://www.linuxrouter.org/".  The
> recommend a 486 with 12 MB for a 10BT ethernet router.
> 

And if you need software for it, just get the 'rescboot.img' and
'rescroot.img' from ftp.pht.com:/pub/turbolinux/images.  You'll need to
make a third blank floppy to hold your settings, but you can just boot
those two, configure it, and let it run indefinitely as a router, no hard
disk space required.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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