[LARTC] Is Linux based Router feasible

[Michael 'Moose' Dinn]

> >I've a local LAN consisting of about 150 machines.  I'm using a Linux 
> >machine as the gateway machine which inturn connects to two different 
> >ISPs.  My question is can a Linux based machine match the performance of a 

How fast is your internet connection? A Pentium 133 will happily run wire
speed for 10M ether, and most places don't have 10M of incoming bandwidth...

for reference, we have a Duron 800 running 3 net connections for a total of
about 10M with virtually no load.


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