[wailug] firewall/router specs

[Phil Workman]

> Mine was a p133/64M until recently, but is now a K6/400/128M after 
I
> decided I wanted to put a bunch of other crap on it as well (a
> user-mode-linux instance and a couple of megabit of IPSEC traffic).
> For the most part, memory is more important than CPU power.
> 
> Full rate DSL or Jetstart?
Jetstart
> 
> It'll also depend on the type of modem you get - if the one you get
> has the Linux box doing the PPP side of things (which is way more
> flexible), you'll be fine for jetstart but may want something 
faster
Internal
> for jetstream. I found the Linux box doing PPP + firewalling was
> CPU-bound at around the 200K/sec mark, and couldn't do any faster.
>
Ok so might be just ok or not - will try we have 160meg ram.
for neighbour 

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