On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, David Lang wrote:
> wait a min, unless you have more then 2 T-3 lines 100Mb full duplex
> ethernet will not be your limit. with a switched network your firewall
The point wasn't throughput, it was collissions on the NIC and buffering.
> will only see the trafic destined for the outside world plus broadcast
> traffic. It does you no good to put in a firewall/router capabile of
> Gb/sec performance if you hook it to a 1.5Mb T-1.
With ~300 machines at 100Mb/s, you'll get buffering and collision issues
when all of them try to go out that single 100Mb/s port. I doubt that a
school dorm has too much internal-only traffic. Make the link outside
slow, and those packets will have to queue even more trying to leave.
Paul
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