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

[William Kenworthy]

How? - uarts are on serial ports, firewalls usually use nics ...

BillK

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 00:43, Arie Hol wrote:
> 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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