I'm interested in the switches. Are they base-10 or 100?

I also scrounged up a 1u P3 700 (w/128mb) box and a dual-nic from 
Compaq.  No more realteks for me!  Between that an the managed switch, I 
might be able to pull this off.  Big thanks!

TY for the link to the hardware requirements by the way, that was what I 
was loooking for. :-)

-Fig

Chris Buechler wrote:

>meant for the list
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Matt Breitbach <matthewb at flash dot shanje dot com>
>Date: Oct 7, 2005 2:43 AM
>Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] New User
>To: Chris Buechler <cbuechler at gmail dot com>
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>Or, If anyone's interested, I just bought some stuff from an Internet
>Startup.....SmartStack 24 port managed switches, 50 bucks a pop.  I'll be
>happy to provide a phone number to anyone interested in them.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chris Buechler" <cbuechler at gmail dot com>
>Cc: <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch>
>Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 1:18 AM
>Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] New User
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>On 10/5/05, Fig <figmail at comcast dot net> wrote:
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>>OK, so the 233 won't be enough. I was afraid of that. :-(
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>actually it should be, if you just trash those crappy Realtek NIC's.
>Get some Intels, you'll get 4-5 times the throughput on that CPU.
>
>It doesn't sound like you're talking about pushing a whole lot of
>traffic between segments, so it shouldn't be much of an issue.
>Properly done, this will add less than 1 ms of latency.
>
>Ideally you could get a managed switch ($100-150 on ebay for a half
>decent 24 port), set up each port in its own VLAN, and route between
>the VLAN's all using one interface on m0n0wall.
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>>I assume that will take more cpu/ram though.
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>RAM, no, CPU, yes (though maybe not more than a 233, depending on what
>kind of throughput between interfaces you require).  See
>http://doc.m0n0.ch/handbook/hardware-sizing.html
>
>-Chris
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