Fast enough to handle an OC-3 on the upstream side?

[Derrik Pates]

Ok, I have to ask. Does anyone have a similar setup, or can anyone tell
me, if a dual P2-450 system, with 256 MB of RAM, running Linux 2.4 and
Squid, with a gigabit fiber card on the interior side and 100 Mbps UTP
card on the exterior side, will be fast enough to handle NATing our
network if we get an OC-3 (~45 Mbps)? I want to make sure the box will
continue to have enough horsepower, as we may soon be jumping to an OC-3
from a T-1 (The state says this, anyway - we'll see what happens. If we
upgrade, no one is gonna complain. :), and no one likes complaining users
or poorly-used connections, right? Right? :)

Derrik Pates      |   Sysadmin, Douglas School   |    #linuxOS on EFnet
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