> >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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx // 902 423 4700 (voice) // support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/