On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 12:32:48AM +0300, Liran Zvibel wrote: > My current computer is a creepy 486 33 MHZ, I'm not sure that it will be > able to service me, operate the ISDN line and be a server to a new PII It *will* be able, assuming it has at least 16MB RAM or better 32MB if that is possible. (You should really try to put a bit from the planned budget for the new one in RAM for the old one. It makes a big difference under Linux)
Even an 386sx is cabable of sustaining the (rather low compared to Ethernet) data rate of 64Kbit that ISDN uses. You won't notice data transfers I once used a 486/33 DX with IDE disks in mode 0 to serve 15 PC's, all Pentium 150, for simultaneous web access with squid as a proxy. Worked great (as soon as I put in 32MB, but that's the price for running squid. You won't need it) > (266 > or 300,haven't decided yet) machine (even if it can, won't it slow down > the new computer?) No. The bottleneck will be the ethernet anyway. Nils -- *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Truemper | | L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | W>Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit | * W>working today and rise on easter? *
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