At 04:17 PM 3/20/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Timothy Lillicrap wrote:
> You won't notice a difference. I remember one little 486/66 box that
>was doing routing for a LAN of 200 client computers. It was connected to
>a T1. It's power supply gave out and we replaced it with a Pentium
>75mhz, there was no difference in the network performance at all. None
>of the users even knew we replaced it with a slightly faster machine. We
>had more problems with our 3Com switches spontaneously dying and some of
>the tempermental SGI Indigo 2's then we had with the little IPchains
>box.
> My favourite box for network routing though has got to be either a Sun
>Sparc IPX or a Sun Sparc 2. Those old machines are glorious, they just
>keep running and running. You can get them really cheap now, less then
>$100 US and worth every penny. RedHat Linux runs very tight on them.
>Good luck!
>
>
>Toby A. Rider
>
NOw if only you could find S-bus network cards for the Sparc 2 without
paying an arm and a leg...
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