Rodd Ahrenstorff <rahrenstorff at yahoo.com> wrote: > > On this topic, I have 2 Pentium (100 & 133Mhz) systems collecting dust > at my house. However, since I now have a cable modem at home I would > like to revive at least one to use as an anonymous FTP server with a > login. With only minimum traffic would this machine suffice? I would > be running it with a 10gig HD, 133Mhz chip, 256Mb RAM, 3Com 905* NIC. A low-end Pentium can pretty easily saturate a 10Mbit connection if the data has already been cached. If conditions are right, that's probably possible while reading from disk (enabling DMA could be a big help here -- see my previous post). A cable modem is insignificant. Ah, bandwidth and Linux.. Reminds me of Ben Kochie's old story of a 386 router he had with two ISA NICs - one was even 8-bit. It could still route 300kB/s if I remember right. Of course, serving is a different beast, but it just goes to show how optimized the networking in Linux is. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ I'm a nobody. Nobody is / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ perfect. Therefore I'm \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) perfect. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011019/dc9b6ded/attachment.pgp