From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Oct 25 01:40:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA18378 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 01:40:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from opi.flirtbox.ch ([62.48.0.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA18373 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 01:40:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oppermann@pipeline.ch) Received: (qmail 12912 invoked from network); 25 Oct 1998 08:38:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pipeline.ch) (195.134.140.1) by opi.flirtbox.ch with SMTP; 25 Oct 1998 08:38:41 -0000 Message-ID: <3632D5DC.27B5F55C@pipeline.ch> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:40:12 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann Organization: Internet Business Solutions Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dg@root.com CC: John Cavanaugh , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: another record References: <199810241823.LAA05442@implode.root.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message