> > why 100mb? is it because you have 100mb ethernet cards? If so, you'll be
> > surprised to
> > hear that with these, you can get about 6mb....

Unless they're using switched ethernet, in which case each port can get up
to 200Mb + / sec...

> Our outbound link hovers around 3-4megabyte/sec which is more then what
> ethernet can sustain, that's why we needed to engineer a NAT
implimentation
> that can sustain close to FE speeds.

I have no exact measurements, but if you're looking for a non-Cisco type
system, a BSD or Linux box running on a modern processor should handle it
just fine.
--
Michael T. Babcock

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