On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 01:34:07AM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Ronald Cotoni wrote:
> 
> > would a ipc with 48 megs ram and a 2 gig hd or a ss2 with a weitek powerup
> > and 64 megs ram and a 1 gig hd handle routeing and nat and filtering
> > better of a cable modem
> 
> 	The SS2 is ~double the CPU performance of an IPC. The weitek
> 	just makes it even better. Both should handle routing and NAT for
> 	a cable moden, the ss2+weitek better :)

both are way overpowered for the task.  so it really doesn't matter which he
uses.  i'd say toss the 1G in the ipc and use that as nat router and setup the
sparc2 to do web/mail/ftp/etc.

-brian
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