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

[Arie Hol]

I suppose that might depend on how a PC is getting access to the Internet -
but, if I am wrong then so be it.

At 06:09 AM 26-11-2002 +0800, you 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

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