[plug] Packets per second

[John Summerfield]

> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > If you are allowed to use Linux as the router, I strongly recommend
> > putting the students on a separate IPMasq'ed subnet from the staff, and
> > if it is practical, add more cards to the Linux box and divide up the
> > students between as many physically and logically separate subnets as
> > you can. You can run the Linux box headless and have one card per PCI
> > slot. I recommend the Tulip compatible falvours, *avoid* cheapies like
> > the RealTek 8139 for potentially performance-critical applications like
> > this.
> 
> Today I just had a Tulip card die on me for no apparent reason... it works
> until you go to transfer more than about 10k over the network, then
> networking on the machine dies completely.  I replaced it with a 8139 and
> it works perfectly. :P  (BTW, I agree with you - the Tulip cards are
> normally better... but don't rely on my "hearsay". ;-)
>  
> > Students have *lots* of time on their hands. Run everything chrooted,
> > throw away telnet and install OpenSSH, make free use of chattr +i and
> > restrictive mounts (ro, nosuid, noexec, nodev), switch off any service
> > not actually necessary.

I have an smc Etherpowe II (epic100). There is a four-port version; 
logically four NICs on once PCI card.

Sens then SMC's been taken over, I think by ACCTON.


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