Multi-drop PPPoE (Re: [ale] Mindspring/Earthlink DSL and linux?)

[Wandered Inn]

Dow Hurst wrote:

> How does router performance relate to CPU power?  

Just read a bit about this in the book 'building internet firewalls.' 
The 'claim' there is that cpu is not a big issue as long as all the
processor is doing is masq/forwarding.

I would think the biggest issue would be the available throughput via
your nic.  Are there any 386 boxes that have pci slots?  I guess if
you're only using two nics, one for your internet connection, one to
your network, you would be okay.

Someone posted a bit about the max throughput of isa nic cards, but I've
not been able to locate it.  Might not be a real issue.

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