Well, I am not sure exactly, but I don't think you will have a problem. I currently use SmoothWall on a pentium 133 with 16MB of RAM. It is the firewall/router for my cable network. no problems in well over a year. On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:32:36 -0500, Josh Trutwin <josh at trutwins.homeip.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 486 PC that I've setup to route/firewall all my internet > traffic with Debian Linux and iptables. Been working like a champ for > over a year now. I'm planning on upgrading my bandwidth to > residential cable though from a 512 kbps up/down connection to a 6mbps > down / 384 kbps up. > > My question is does this box limit my bandwidth? The two NIC's are on > an ISA bus. It seems to work fine, it's only role in life is to > firewall, but I'm not sure if that hardware is just too plain old to > handle 6mbps. Any thoughts? > > Josh > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Loren H. Burlingame <loren at lhb.name> GPG Key ID: 0x112DCF4F "Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." -William Shatner (a.k.a. Buck Murdock) _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list