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On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Derek Evans wrote:
> I have an old 486-66 w/20MB. Would this be suitable for masq'ing and
> firewalling a 2-way cable connection, with 2 clients behind the masq box?
> What are your recommendations?
No problem! I had a 486-100 that served as my primary workstation
and the masq gateway (ethernet to ethernet) for a 30+ workstation lan for
a year. Granted, the mouse got sluggish in X when someone downloaded
large files at ethernet speeds, but that was probably because I was using
NE2000's - notoriously inefficient network cards.
The 66 should be just fine. Cheers,
- Bill
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