TransACT

[Richard Cottrill]

I've run into people using 486s for smoothwall, and the most common
complaint is that SSL and similar connections can take a long time to
initiate while the keys are generated. I have a P100 (routing ADSL) and it's
not exactly snappy.

Apart from that a 486 33MHz is plenty for routing work over 10Base2 nets
(Rod, care to elaborate?).

How fast is TransACT anyway?

Can TransACT saturate that sort of network? I'm not familiar with TransACT's
vital stats.

Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:linux-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Sam Couter
> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 12:55 AM
> To: CLUG
> Subject: Re: TransACT
>
>
> Oscar Bosman <oscarb at netspeed.com.au> wrote:
> > I have an old x486-66/28M/300M as the smoothie box (no CD).  Bought 2
>
> How well does this machine handle the load at full speed?
>
> I have a 486DX2/66 and a 486DX/33, and it looks like one of them will
> need to be the ADSL/TransACT box. I don't have any spare machines with
> more power than that.
>
> Based on your experience, do you think a 33MHz 486 would work okay? I'd
> prefer to put the 66Mhz machine to other uses.
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