-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 PPPoE? Ick. I have a bridged DSL connection, it's totaly transparent to the computer. How hard on a cpu is plain old ethernet?
On Saturday, January 05 2002 06:08 pm, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Ryan wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > This got me thinking, my firewall has a pentium 120, does this really > > need a fan? > > The 486DX2-66 had overheating problems when it first came out. > > I think the answer is specific to each chip, because they lowered the cpu > voltage as they climbed the clock speed ladder, but they didn't do it in > step with the clock speed increases. There were other things they did to > handle the thermal load as well. > > Finally, firewalls typically have a very very low cpu load. Put a > computationally intensive application on that cpu and the temperature can > rise by 20 degrees C. Run a pppoe connection and start pumping data > through it and watch your cpu temperature rise. > > Learn by trial and error. Older cpus didn't have built in temperature > monitors, so it was harder to experiment with them.... you had to wait > until the cpu locked up. External temperature monitoring is not likely to > be helpful, unfortunately. > > > On Saturday, January 05 2002 09:21 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > henry, my firewall, mephisto, is using a "Pentium MMX" clocked at > > > 233MHz. > > > > > > there is no fan. it's creepy how quiet it is. in fact, sometimes i > > > have to look over to it just to get a mental confirmation that the damn > > > thing is on. have to admit, i've forgotten how nice it is to not have > > > a fan on a machine. > > [...] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech - -- No Microsoft products were used in any way for the creation of this message. If you are using a Microsoft product to view it, BEWARE! - I'm not responsible for any harm you might encounter as a result. - -- PGP Public key at http://mother.com/~ryan/ryan_at_mother_dot_com.asc It is also on the servers: Key ID 0x72177BC7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8N7LvEd9E83IXe8cRApS7AJ0WRtCrs7unRILmT8iGcVF8DbLSNgCcDvFZ v/AzyyZnJRrSKG986Z1uI5c= =P96i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
