Date: 25 Dec 2002 03:21:30 +0000 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> Cc: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard Message-ID: <1040786490.77057.20.camel@zaphod.softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <20021223113349.GA14827@server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au> References: <20021223113349.GA14827@server.c18609.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au>
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On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 11:33, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 08:14:44AM +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > >CPU: VIA C3 Samuel 2 (800.03-MHz 686-class CPU) > > Origin = "CentaurHauls" Id = 0x678 Stepping = 8 > > Features=0x803035<FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,MMX> > >real memory = 266272768 (260032K bytes) > ... > >So for summary: It is quite perfect for be the FreeBSD router that manage > >my adsl line and till now I can't find anything that not work as expected > >(even if I think the cpu could be more fast :-) > > What do people expect their firewall/router to be doing? In a word: encryption. 486's are perfectly capable routers, but fall on their faces trying to encrypt/decrypt multiple streams. An 800 MHz is probably overkill for a residential router/gateway, but we could pretty much max out a 300 MHz NS/Cyrix processor running 3-4 IPsec VPNs on the box at the same time. A hardware encryption engine would most likely be a better choice than a faster (hotter) general purpose CPU, though. -- Wes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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