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Will an ancient machine slow network traffic ?

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XBoxLPU

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I'm going to be running an IRC server using ADSL The IRC server, which is a mini AT case with a p133 64mg RAM will be directly connected to the DSL and IT will have 2 NICs, and I will use it for a router to assign IPs to the other machines in the house.

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ive used routers that had skimpier hardware and it was fine. im not sure about IRC though, lots of scanning, pinging and flooding going on there.
 
My NAT router/firewall is an old Sun Ultra1, 167Mhz running Debian and it's got a lot more than it should installed and it runs fine.
 
I think it depends on what IRCd you will be using, and how many connections you will host. if you are gonna run a small IRC server for just several hundred users ... the Hardware would handle it just fine .. I think your problem is going to be that your IRC server will eat all your bandwidth ... and that would slow your network down quite a bit.
 
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