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Hello,

>> The LX has a 50MHz MicroSPARC if I remember correctly - any 604(e)
>> should be faster, most 603s too, at least in CPU terms.
>
> don't knock the microSPARC too much, that LX can haul an amazing amount
> of butt for being only 50Mhz.  :)
Yeah, but that's mainly because it has SBus with sophisticated DMA 
engines for everything so the CPU doesn't have to work much to move a 
lot of data :)
But for packet filtering and such a 604e should be way faster.

>> a -current kernel on this kind of hardware, it contains a LOT of
>> improvements that didn't make it into 2.0.
>
> other than gnucash no longer working (for whatever fscking reason) the 
> -current
> kernel has done a far better job than the 2.0 kernel for me.  
> especially when
> i burn CDs.  burning a CD under 2.0 will hang the machine every time.  
> burning
> a CD under -current has been flawless everytime so far.
No idea what's wrong with gnucash, but I guess that's not much of an 
issue for a firewall box - the improvements in IO and interrupt 
handling should be a bit more important :)

have fun
Michael
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