At 3:00 PM -0400 7/12/01, Kim Blutreich wrote:
>I have been following the discussion with some interest, but I obviously
>missed something:
>Is it feasible, as far as speed is concerned, to use a 68K machine as the
>router? I have a Centris 650, with an Ethernet card, sitting idle. Can I use
>this machine as the router for IPNetRouter and share a Cable modem with the
>(faster) 8600 and Starmax? Won't there be a significant drop in performance?
>If not, I would dearly love to try it. Aren't there some speed-limiting
>factors here?
>If I am missing the obvious, I would appreciate some reference URL's so I
>don't waste this list's bandwidth
It has been said many times on the IPNetRouter list that even a IIci
is adequate for routing traffic to/from a Cable modem. Paradoxically
routing for a dialup modem takes more of a machine. This is because
the Ethernet hardware handles all the task of sending and receiving
packets. The CPU is more involved with a modem transfer.
--
Clark Martin
Macintosh Consultant
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