From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 31 18:24:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hust.edu.cn (mail.hust.edu.cn [202.112.20.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C1B537B423 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 18:24:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wtxiatao@hust.edu.cn) Received: from rhapsody ([202.114.1.2]) by mail.hust.edu.cn (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.07.30.00.05.p8) with SMTP id <0GE8009SW97855@mail.hust.edu.cn> for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 09:23:33 +0800 (CST) Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 09:24:34 +0800 From: Xia Tao Subject: Re: Bridging firewall To: Richard Lucas , questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: Xia Tao Message-id: <002801c0ea39$9daa8f10$6401010a@rhapsody> Organization: Dept. of Computer, Huazhong Univ. of Sci.&Tech. MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4131.1600 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4131.1600 References: <20010531181516.W1651-100000@mx2.threeh.com> X-Priority: 3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 1.5 Mbps is only a piece of cake for your Cyrix. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Lucas" To: Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 7:25 AM Subject: Bridging firewall > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message