On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Bill Layer wrote: > Finally, a note about hardware performace with BBIagent. Originally, I was > running an old 486-25MHz with 12MB of RAM for the firewall box. On a whim, > I switched to a P133 64MB RAM and noticed an interesting improvement. > While the total throughput of the firewall seemed to stay about the same, > the speed in making connections seemed to increase greatly. I assume you're using the same ISA card in both these boxen? > So with the P133, data still moves at the same speed, but there is much > less apparent lag when initiating a new connection. I consider that an > improvement, but I'm not sure if it is attributable to the increase in > CPU power or RAM. I'd guess either the CPU or the improved bus speed. AFAIK the RAM doesn't really contribute much, just allows a larger RAMdisk. I was running LRP on a 486 box with 8MB longer ago. Not a smoking router by any means, but I was using it for dialup. The latency of the modem contributed more than the bus or CPU speed, so I couldn't really benchmark it. -Brian