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

[garry]

I'd reckon they are talking about a firewall which dials up with a serial 
modem. Makes sense..

Garry

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 06:09, William Kenworthy wrote:
> 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
> >
> > >--------------------------------------------<
> >
> > For the concert of life, nobody has a program.
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