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From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah)
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If memory serves me right, Arabian wrote:

> >Without some more details, it's difficult to answer your question. For
> example, >what kind of services are you providing? 
> 
> I'm runing an IRC server.
> 
> >Where are the clients?
> 
> IRC users.

What I was getting at here was that if the clients are far away, 
network-wise, that the latency added by an extra hop through a router 
is probably negligible by comparison.  (We're talking something on the 
order of a millisecond or so here, assuming that your situation isn't 
pathologically bad.)

> >Are the networks 10Mbps or 100Mbps?
> 
> 100 Mpbs Full Duplex.
> 
> >Is the router doing anything other than routing packets?
> 
> Just routing packets, and as firewall to proect the server connected to it
> from attacks ICMPs ...etc.

I asked this to see if the router is heavily loaded.  Sounds like it's 
not.

> There is no performance problem actually, I just wanted to make sure I wont
> have it on the future, avoiding the problem before it happenes better than
> solving it after problems jumped. :)

OK.  It sounds to me like you're doing OK with what you've got.  I'm 
sure someone else will correct me if there's reason to believe 
otherwise.

Bruce.




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