9 Nov
2007
9 Nov
'07
4:13 p.m.
On Thursday 08 November 2007, Carl Karsten wrote:
I do the networking in my house, and hang out with guys that do networking in small offices that have a few T1s. Now I am talking to people about a DS3 connection for 500 laptops*, and I am bing told "a p4 linux box with 2 nics doing NAT will not be able to handle the load." I am not really qualified to say one way or the other. I bet someone here is.
I'm able to get 45Mb/s through a P3-800 with a four-port NIC running NAT and simple content filtering with SmoothWall Advanced Firewall 2 easily. Have a box doing that right now. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu