Subject: Re: which would handle nat better
To: Brian Hechinger <wonko@4amlunch.net>
From: Ronald Cotoni <setient@vlaxus.yi.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/01/2002 22:54:00
i allready have a nice webserver it is a sun ipx and a p100 i use them for
services as well as my alpha i honestly have too many machines but that is
ok.

On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Ronald Cotoni wrote:

> thanks for you guys input :) i needed that info so i could setup a new
> router cause openbsd has issues with stability on a sparc.
>
> On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Brian Hechinger wrote:
>
> > 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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