Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 15:45:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INN Message-ID: <199608152045.PAA14361@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960815131348.17544Q-100000@sidhe.memra.com> from "Michael Dillon" at Aug 15, 96 01:17:00 pm
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> On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > I've been trying to help a local ISP keep their full-feed news server > running and we are running into so many problems requiring manual > intervention that we must be doing something terribly wrong. Could > somebody do a rundown of the hardware and software requirements to run a > full-feed news server with two incoming feeds (one over 10Mbps fibre ATM > with ping times of 3 ms) and an average of 15 readers (nnrpd processes). software: inn1.4unoff4 (mandatory these days). if not - probably a source of major problems. FreeBSD 2.1.5R. hardware: one P90 with 64/96MB RAM, half a dozen good fast disks (Barracuda or Hawk class, nothing slower than 9.5ms). Triton or Triton-II chipset. Many other chipsets == crap. NCR PCI SCSI controller(s). That's a good set of ingredients for a workable (somewhat small) news server. If you have more specific questions, send to me in private mail and I'll see if I can lend a hand. I run a lot of FreeBSD- and non-FreeBSD based news servers and I've seen a number of examples of things that work and don't work. As some people have noticed, setting up a news server isn't hard, setting one up well is still something of an art form. ;-) ... JG
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