Question about numbers of connections

[Jon Radel]

Sam Wun wrote:
> Alix is for home user.
>

Which is just about as useful as the OP asking if the machine can handle 
"a lot of traffic without troubles" without giving us any hint whether 
he means traffic that keeps a 128 kbps DSL line semi-busy or if he has a 
100 mbps fiber to his house that's practically melting from all the 
traffic.  :-)

That said, I'll report that for years I used a "consumer class" Celeron 
machine with 384 MB of RAM to act as a firewall for some web sites with 
a T1 (1.5 mbps) of traffic hitting it at times, and had no known issues. 
  I've upgraded a bit by now but mainly just because rather than to 
solve any particular issue.

Without knowing more about the traffic to be put across the machine, 
about the only real answer is:  Try it and see what happens.

-- 

--Jon Radel
jon at radel.com
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