On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Jeff Westhead wrote:
> turn my 386 into a firewall/NAT box for my other two machines. Does this
> sound like a good idea?
Yes.
> Will the 386 be fast enough to handle incoming
> traffic at 1.3 Mbps?
It should just about cope especially if it has a reasonable amount of RAM
(by reasonable I mean 8Mb).
> Will any old NE2000 ISA Ethernet card do the trick?
NE2000s don't tend to give particularly good performance, but it should be
OK.
> Any recommendations?
>
Try it. If it don't work you've lost nothing but time, and gained
valuable experience. And it will almost definately work anyway.
--
Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mausoleum: The final and funniest folly of the rich.
-- Ambrose Bierce
