On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Mark Plowman wrote: > I have recently been encouraging my less Linux-centric colleagues to > use LEAF as a fire-wall for their personal dial-up/cable/ADSL Internet > connections, having done the same with the company ISDN and ADSL > connections. > > Yesterday the trainee expressed interest, explained that he had cable > access and asked about the hardware requirements. I explained that > almost anything he could lay his hands on would be sufficient and he > then asked "but wouldn't that (a 386) perform *too* slowly?". I > reassured him that that would be OK and sent him off after an > introductory talk about LEAF with both an Eigerstien and a Dachstein > floppy. > > Once at home I decided to put my "money where my mouth was" and > *downgraded* my 486 DX2-80 with a 386 SX-33! I had to (of course) > replace the kernel on my ISDN Eigerstien with a non-FPU example, but > it all works a treat! What I do notice is that during start-up the > unpacking of the Linux Kernel and initial ram disk images take an > *age*!
I found that there is a lower limit... the performance of a 386-33 on a pppoe setup was significantly lower than no router. However, for static routing it should be okay, and almost any true 486 should keep up with pppoe. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user