[lug] dsl

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 02:19:20PM -0600, ljp wrote:
>By way of a miraculous miracle, QWest finally made it the 8 blocks from the
>old USWest building (can't be an office- no windows.. or maybe it is, I
>don't know), and I am jumping on the broadband bandwagon. ( woohoooooo..
>NASA-TV is going to be much more fun) Is a P-133 enough power to run as a
>firwall, for a 256 connection?  I only have a small home network, 2 or 3
>computers. Whats the lowest CPU/RAM that could possibly be useful?

That should be able to handle 256kbps.  I have a P120 with 32 or 64MB
acting as a firewall at home on a 768K line.  It has problems keeping
up with 10Mbps to computers outside the firewall, but that's probably
more a function of the 10mbps card that's on the outside there.

You could probably do it with a 486 and 8 to 16MB of ram, depending on
what it's going to do.  If just firewalling, you don't need much at all.

Sean
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