[2341] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Internet Provider?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Hays)
Thu Apr 4 06:40:38 1996
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 09:52:41 -0700
From: Curtis Hays <hays@satcom.whit.org>
To: Luis Felipe Balbinot <HADES@lapro4.unisinos.tche.br>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <1C23E00206@lapro4.unisinos.tche.br>
On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Luis Felipe Balbinot wrote:
> Is that possible to make an Internet Provider on a P5 166Mhz with
> 32Mb and 4.3Gb SCSI-II HD using Linux? Can I set up 30 external lines
> (to users) that use SLIP/PPP at 28,800 ? I have a 2Mbps
> backbone to use.
>
> I'm afraid that this machine is not fast enough to handle 30 users at
> the same time using all the ttys...
>
> --
> cul8r,
>
Yes it will work,, I'm using a Pentium 133 with 64M of RAM and a Faralon
hub serving 27 WIN95 clients on 10baseT. I am using kernel 1.3.77, If the
access is mostly going to be slip/ppp then there really isn't a need for
all of the processing power_although it can never hurt_because the Linux
box is just going to be routing IP packets. The routing of the packets
takes very little system resources. The routing tables are in RAM, so it
is very fast. Hope this helps, good luck.
Curtis Hays
SA Spider Communications
Colorado Springs, COLORADO
