[ale] pls sanity check my article

[Bao C. Ha]

That seems awfully slow.

I was using a 486/DX2/66 with two ISA NICs, and downloading
Debian CDs at 120-180 KBytes/sec during good/uncongested time.
(Adelphia's cable modem connection in Boca Raton, Florida).

FTP transfers between it and another AMD/366K6-2 can be
sustained at 600 KBytes/sec.

Bao

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Jeff
> Hubbs
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 12:15 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: RE: [ale] pls sanity check my article
> 
> 
> 
> > Number 1:  I did this for a while with an old 386 with two 
> > 10base-T cards, but
> > I couldn't get full 1.5mbit throughput, rather it limited it 
> > to a few hundred
> > kbits...I'd recommend a 486 for cable/dsl, and something with 
> > PCI, VLB or MCA32
> > bus network cards wouldn't hurt.  Oh, and you can use more 
> > than two network
> > cards in this machine, and divide up your network from this 
> > level, as well,
> > allowing different things for different cards with 
> ipchains/iptables.
> 
> I can confirm that an ISA/VL bus 486DX/33 with two ISA NICs 
> can NAT firewall
> at 1.3Kb/s incoming.  I do not know if the machine in question was the
> limiting factor.  A PCI, MCA, or EISA 486 might be able to do 
> better if you
> can find the proper NICs.  Were there ever VL NICs?  Were 
> there any machines
> with more than one slot (or built-in VL NIC with one 
> available VL slot?
> 
> Other ideas you may not have mentioned:
> 
> * Print server - Put Samba and lpr on it; print to the same 
> printer from
> Linux, Windows, and other OSses
> * Fax server
> * Beowulf or MOSIX cluster!  I'm working on making a MOSIX 
> cluster out of
> junk at the moment, mostly just to show that I can do it!  
> What will I use
> it for?  Who knows?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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