>> > > Dont have a crappy mobo chipset and anything over 800 mhz >> > would be able to >> > > do plenty filterings. I guess a P2 450 could work also.. >> > yes, but a P2-233 should have enough HP for standard stuff, >> routing of >> > 100mbit + some not so complex filtering with normal packet >> > sizes should be >> > possible. >> > >> > one can still stick a celeron 500 into the box, they are very cheap >> > on ebay, in case changing the xl to sk is not enough. >> > >> > >> > bye, siggi. >> > >> >> Well I was thinking about that, but since the Sun box gives >> me pretty much >> exactly the same performance, I'm thinking the PCI bus is limiting me. >> After all, it's the only thing that's the same on both boxes, >> save for the >> lines themselves. nope. pci has a max bandwith of ~130Mbyte/s simplex. I was able to push about 600mbit/sec through normal PCI using sk cards and normal packetsizes. which translates into around 1.2 gbits/s Bandwith.
> Well, just to follow up on this, the quad card didn't help either. what kind of qfe card did you get ? > I guess I'll make one last attempt with only sk cards, but I'm doubting > the cards are the problem by now. well, it could be a few other things, but then you are in for some digging. I don't have any recent numbers but I can remember that my old k6-2-300 at his time could do 100mbit/s so the raw cpu-power is not be the problem. 32mb are not much but for plain routing it should be enough. bye, siggi.
