Subject: Re: Mac or PC for IP gateway?/Mac or PC for Samba?
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Randy Beaudreault <maccult@pacbell.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/08/2002 16:02:31
>  > > NIC, to NetBSD PPC and run Samba there, and use the old 486/33 (which
>>  > already has a 56K modem and a 10 MBit NIC) for Internet routing?
>>
>>  Unless you have a very big internet pipe the 486 will be able to deal with
>>  that job just fine. I used a similar machine (486/50) as my DSL router (and
>
>i'm using 386DX/40 for routing/ipnat'ing/ipf/DNS/DHCP 230kbps leased-line
>link (ISA RS-232) for 2 subnets. works at full speed

Does anybody have slower than a IIcx doing 
routing/firewalling/NATing/DNS?  I set this up for my client and she 
is happy with her home network.
-- 
Randy Beaudreault

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