STeve Andre' wrote on Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 03:05:50AM -0500: > I don't think I have any Compudyne 486's left, but if I find one > I'll try it with that, too. I'd bet it could deal with a 10Mb link > just fine, too.
Actually, i ran our main firewall (three-leg intranet/Internet/DMZ) with NAT for about a dozen concurrent users in our internal net and a public Mail- and Webserver in the DMZ, all fully 100 Mbit Ethernet, on a 486-SX (25 MHz CPU) with 32 MB RAM and 200 MB total disk space for a few years, about 2001 to 2003 or 2004 iirc. But that wouldn't make sense nowadays, use a disk at least large enough for a full OpenBSD install. Currently, the machine i'm talking about is an AMD-K6 234 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 3 GB disk running -current. I have much faster unused hardware lying around, but upgrading the machine seems like a waste of time to me, it's already oversized.
