-----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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
