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Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 18:25:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Lucas <rlucas@solidcomputing.com>
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Subject: Bridging firewall
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I am looking to put up a bridging firewall and was wondering if anyone
could give me an idea on the power of the machine I would need. From what
I understand to low end of a machine could cause lag.

I have an old cyrix 166 w/ 128 megs of ram that I was thinking of using
since the machine isn't doing anything now. Would this be enough to handle
a constant load of about 1.5 Mbps or should I look in to something a bit
faster?

Any info would be appreciated.


-Richard


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