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Ayman


Gerry Marcelo wrote:
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> I'm considering using IP Masqurading to exploit a cable modem into my home
> and put two other windows boxes on-line.   Can anyone give me an idea of
> what sort of hardware (meaning the actual computer) would be suitable for
> this job?
> 
> I've got an old Intel DX2 50 machine running 20 megs of memory with Redhat
> 5.2 installed.  I have not yet bought ethernet cards for the job...I only
> have ISA slots on the mother board.
> 
> Can this old 486 do the job considering the speed of a cable modem, or am I
> creating more of a bandwith bottleneck?
>