> >> > > Dont have a crappy mobo chipset and anything over 800 mhz > >> > would be able to > >> > > do plenty filterings. I guess a P2 450 could work also.. > >> > yes, but a P2-233 should have enough HP for standard stuff, > >> routing of > >> > 100mbit + some not so complex filtering with normal packet > >> > sizes should be > >> > possible. > >> > > >> > one can still stick a celeron 500 into the box, they are > very cheap > >> > on ebay, in case changing the xl to sk is not enough. > >> > > >> > > >> > bye, siggi. > >> > > >> > >> Well I was thinking about that, but since the Sun box gives > >> me pretty much > >> exactly the same performance, I'm thinking the PCI bus is > limiting me. > >> After all, it's the only thing that's the same on both boxes, > >> save for the > >> lines themselves. > nope. pci has a max bandwith of ~130Mbyte/s simplex. I was able to > push about 600mbit/sec through normal PCI using sk cards and normal > packetsizes. which translates into around 1.2 gbits/s Bandwith. > > > Well, just to follow up on this, the quad card didn't help either. > what kind of qfe card did you get ? > > > I guess I'll make one last attempt with only sk cards, but > I'm doubting > > the cards are the problem by now. > well, it could be a few other things, but then you are in for > some digging. > I don't have any recent numbers but I can remember that my > old k6-2-300 at > his time could do 100mbit/s so the raw cpu-power is not be > the problem. > 32mb are not much but for plain routing it should be enough. > > bye, siggi. >
Well, two more sk cards inbound, gonna give it a shot with an old 440BX I have laying around. Shouldn't leave any weak spots really...good chipset, good NIC's, 450 MHz P-II, I'll put 128 MB in there just to be on the safe side. If that doesn't work, I guess I'll try CURRENT. Oh and I also played around a bit with duplex settings after getting a hint that it sometimes causes problems, no luck. Thanks Johan
