From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 9 10:37:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D859637B401 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 10:37:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from glamredhel.hayholt.org (elvandar.hayholt.org [195.18.109.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD3C043FA3 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 10:37:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@hayholt.org) Received: from eldar.hayholt.org (unknown [192.168.0.2]) by glamredhel.hayholt.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFA232A342; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 19:36:30 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 19:37:50 +0100 (CET) From: Marcel Stangenberger To: Paul Hoffman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How important is CPU speed for a bridging NAT box? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030209193625.I58866@eldar.hayholt.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Greetings again. I'm about to set up a box that is dedicated as a > bridging NAT and firewall. I was going to use an old P133 box I had > laying around. Will this be fast enough for typical Internet access > at 384Kbps if the box isn't doing anything else, or do I need a > faster machine? > should be more then enough, i used a Pentium 75 with 64Mb of memory for a 1.5Mbit line with a NAT and firewall configuration. Marcel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message