Re: 486 router is very slow

[Paul Huygen <paul.huygen@huygen.nl>]

Raffaele Sandrini wrote:

> I set up a router with my old 486 computer [potato, kernel 2.4]
> 
> Normally i have have rates of 7.8 kb/s (ISDN) throughput. But if i try it 
> over my new router the rate is not more than 2 kb/s. Is it possible that the 
> Masquerading process takes too much recources on that machine? It's a 33 Mhz 
> Intel DX Processor.

I think your 486 computer is not the limiting factor. I have a
firewall-router with masquerading on a 33 MHz 486 compu, connected with a
ne2000 compatible ethernet card to a
cable modem. The operating system is "Linux on a flop" (Linux Router
Project, kernel 2.0.16). Often data transfer rates have values like 30 kb/s.

> 
> Any hints to speed that up?
>

No. sorry.

Regards,

Paul Huygen.