[ale] pls sanity check my article

[Casey Allen Shobe]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Bao C. Ha wrote:
> That seems awfully slow.

I think he meant 1.3Mb/s.  Mine was 1.5Mb/s, which translates into 180KB/s
(note the b [bit] vs B [byte])  I was used to downloading at 180KB/s, but when
using the 386 as the gateway, it wouldn't do it, peaking out at around
40-50KB/s...

> I was using a 486/DX2/66 with two ISA NICs, and downloading
> Debian CDs at 120-180 KBytes/sec during good/uncongested time.
> (Adelphia's cable modem connection in Boca Raton, Florida).
> 
> FTP transfers between it and another AMD/366K6-2 can be
> sustained at 600 KBytes/sec.
> 
> Bao
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Jeff
> > Hubbs
> > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 12:15 PM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: RE: [ale] pls sanity check my article
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > Number 1:  I did this for a while with an old 386 with two 
> > > 10base-T cards, but
> > > I couldn't get full 1.5mbit throughput, rather it limited it 
> > > to a few hundred
> > > kbits...I'd recommend a 486 for cable/dsl, and something with 
> > > PCI, VLB or MCA32
> > > bus network cards wouldn't hurt.  Oh, and you can use more 
> > > than two network
> > > cards in this machine, and divide up your network from this 
> > > level, as well,
> > > allowing different things for different cards with 
> > ipchains/iptables.
> > 
> > I can confirm that an ISA/VL bus 486DX/33 with two ISA NICs 
> > can NAT firewall
> > at 1.3Kb/s incoming.  I do not know if the machine in question was the
> > limiting factor.  A PCI, MCA, or EISA 486 might be able to do 
> > better if you
> > can find the proper NICs.  Were there ever VL NICs?  Were 
> > there any machines
> > with more than one slot (or built-in VL NIC with one 
> > available VL slot?
> > 
> > Other ideas you may not have mentioned:
> > 
> > * Print server - Put Samba and lpr on it; print to the same 
> > printer from
> > Linux, Windows, and other OSses
> > * Fax server
> > * Beowulf or MOSIX cluster!  I'm working on making a MOSIX 
> > cluster out of
> > junk at the moment, mostly just to show that I can do it!  
> > What will I use
> > it for?  Who knows?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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