Re: performance problem on debian firewall/router
Greetings!
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 21:06:35 +0100 Volker Eckert
<volkere@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> i'm running a 486dx2@66 with 16mb of ram as a small dsl router
[...]
> 50kb max, however.
I guess that's meant to be 50 kBytes/s (=400kbit/s), right?
That's pretty much the same limit I encountered with my 486dx2/66, too -
even when running a stripped-down router-only Linux based on a small 2.2
or 2.0 kernel (e.g. Fli4L). Upgrading to a Pentium(/90) box helped.
As the P/90 is using basically the same NICs (Ne2k's) and still IDE/AT
bus(has PCI, too, but I had spare standard IDE cards left), I guess it
was simply the missing horsepower.
Unfortunately "intelligent" NICs that are sparing the CPU additional PIO
cycles usually only come in newer (PCI) or more expensive (EIDE) bus
systems. Another reason to upgrade...
Bye
Volker Tanger
ITK Security
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