On Tue, 18 May 1999, John E. Morrow wrote:

> > Also, don't expect really good performance on thruput. The networking on
> > my Centris 650 (which is my mail and proxy machine) isn't exactly what I
> > would call stellar, but that's probably the  poor 'ole 25mhz 040 more than
> > anything.
> 
> I also have a 486DX2-66 kicking around somewhere. If I set this up between my
> local net and my DSL connection with NetBSD would the performance be
> noticeably better?

If its doing IPNAT or some sort of other routing, you'd probably get full
use out of your bandwidth from internal machines.

Cheers,
Sean

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