[Gllug] new member....

Ian Northeast ian at house-from-hell.demon.co.uk
Thu Aug 4 18:53:43 UTC 2005


Chris Bell wrote:
> On Wed 03 Aug, John Southern wrote:

>    I loaded Debian Sarge on a 486DX2-66MHz, booting from 3 floppies, and it
> is now running with 16MBytes RAM as an invisible bridge with packet
> filtering on my nominal 500K ADSL internet connection. I will be interested
> to see what happens when my upgrade to 2M actually happens. 

I couldn't make a PII 230-ish use much CPU running a complex ipchains 
firewall with 100Mb/s sustained throughput in a contrived test. So I 
think it'll be fine, OK it's a lot slower than my PII but not 50 times.

Regards, Ian


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