From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 31 11:13:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBB0C15034 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:13:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@bolingbroke.com) Received: from localhost (ken@localhost) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA28937 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:13:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:13:03 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Bolingbroke X-Sender: ken@fremont.bolingbroke.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install behind firewall; FTP over HTTP proxies. In-Reply-To: <20000131220625.C329@brampton.cqu.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 q9405096@brampton.cqu.edu.au wrote: > Well, my plan is to start playing with ports soonishly. I come from a > background of Linux, mostly Debian. I'm looking at possible options for > a gateway - it currently runs Debian, but it's limiting throughput to > ~3.3k/s. I think it's the hardware though, so the poor old 386 might > have to get thrown into a corner. Any ideas on that? I digress, but I actually got better throughput with FreeBSD on a '386 w/8MB RAM than with the same modem, to the same ISP, on Windows98 running on a PII-400 w/64MB RAM. The FreeBSD '386 machine was ~16% faster on large FTP transfers from the Internet in informal testing. That cute lil' ol' '386 is still doing excellent service for a network of Macs, doing NAT, DNS, and packet filtering. If it impairs network connectivity (10Mbps cable modem) to the Macs, I haven't been able to notice it. Ken Bolingbroke hacker@bolingbroke.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message