[PLUG] dsl speeds

[James C. Lewis]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, garrett wrote:
> CPU and RAM do matter .. depending on your network loads and your routing
> you could drop packets if you're box won't keep up.

In practice though,  a machine that just sits and does routing
won't.  You'll have to saturate the isa (or pci) bus before you really
start having problems... and if you're doing that, it doesn't matter how
fast the proc is.

When they are saying "CPU and RAM doesn't matter," they mean when all the
computer is doing is routing they aren't a major concern.  Now, if you
don't have enough RAM for the kernel and it has to swap in and out of a
swapfile, you're going to have problems.


-James C Lewis
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