[plug] firewall computer - was Re: [plug] Has anyone else seen a flurry of Windows probes recently?

[Arie Hol]

Bret Busby, wrote :
>
>Beats ours (more minimal than ours); servicing 5 client computers, we 
>have a Cyrix 100MHz 6x86, with 32MB RAM.
>
>I just wonder whether the speed, etc, of a firewall/gateway computer, 
>restricts the throughput speed of data.
>

With the older types of PC's I think you will find that the type of UART
chip on the motherboard will have a greater influence on data rates than the
motherboard, CPU or the RAM.

If the UART chips are 16550 of better then you should have no problems - if
they are 15550 or less you are likely to lose a lot of packets due limited
buffer size on the UART chip itself.


Regards Arie

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