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Date:      Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:40:12 +0200
From:      Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        John Cavanaugh <john@bang.rain.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: another record
Message-ID:  <3632D5DC.27B5F55C@pipeline.ch>
References:  <199810241823.LAA05442@implode.root.com>

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David Greenman wrote:
-snip-
>    As for planned upgrades, we'll be going to Xeon/4xx in a month or so. The
> main reason for doing this is the increased memory capacity - the new machine
> will have 4GB of RAM. This will allow us to increase the FTP limit to at
> least 10000 users. My main concern at the moment is that we don't have
> sufficient network bandwidth to support that many users (we're just hitting
> the limit of our 100Mbps circuit with 3500 users). We're talking with CRL
> about our options. I'm advocating gigabit ethernet, but we may have to
> settle for multiple 100Mbps circuits in the short term.

How would you do that? With multiple IP's and round-robin DNS or do you
have secretly written some Fast-Ethernet load sharing drivers? ;-)

-- 
Andre

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