[lug] dsl

[Alan Robertson]

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?

I use a 33mhz '486 with 16 M of RAM.  It runs about 10-20% busy for my
~400kbits of real throughput.

	(really!)

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at suse.com