From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 12 00:26:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49E37106566C for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:26:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dduong@goldenmunky.org) Received: from goldenmunky.org (206-248-139-62.dsl.teksavvy.com [206.248.139.62]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDFD98FC2A for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:26:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dduong@goldenmunky.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by goldenmunky.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A174E200C79; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:26:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at goldenmunky.org X-Spam-Score: -4.089 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.089 tagged_above=-1000 required=2 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, AWL=0.310, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from goldenmunky.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mercury.goldenmunky.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wdRCB6WPcJFb; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:26:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.2.25] (unknown [192.168.2.25]) by goldenmunky.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B15A200C7D; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:26:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <480001A1.2030300@goldenmunky.org> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:26:09 -0400 From: David Duong User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luke Dean References: <47FAE8A5.1030605@goldenmunky.org> <20080408214719.Y87388@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org> In-Reply-To: <20080408214719.Y87388@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question regarding mail and dns server on Alix/Soekris? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:26:21 -0000 Luke Dean wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, David Duong wrote: >> I'm planning to redoing my home network. I currently have one server >> (Opteron 170) that is currently a NAS, Email, and DNS server (btw, the >> main OS is FreeBSD). I was thinking of purchasing an Alix2c3/Soekris >> 5501 and use it as a Email + DNS server. Then dedicate my main server >> as a FreeBSD NFS server. >> >> My question is, has anyone installed a mail + DNS server on a >> ALIX/Soekris PC? If so, is it able to handle the load? > > I received a Soekris 4801 for Christmas 2005. I put FreeBSD 6 on it. > It's my home network's gateway to the outside world, router, firewall > (pf), dns server (bind), time server (ntpd), and socks proxy (nylon). > > I wanted this to be a highly reliable machine, so I opted not to install > a hard drive. It boots from the compact flash card, mounted read-only > so it won't wear out. I didn't want to trust my email or web content to > a memory disk, so I've got those services running on another box. It's > running "sendmail" just for nightly status reports, but that's probably > not what you're interested in. > > It wasn't easy to set this up, but it was very rewarding. FreeBSD's > "diskless" startup code was in a state of flux when I put this box > together, but I expect it's a lot better now. I've been happy with it. > I'm tempted to try upgrading it to FreeBSD 7 on some rainy weekend, and > I may even install a DHCP server on it this time. > > I'm not sure what numbers you're interested in for determining if the > box can handle the load. "top" registers no load, a mostly idle CPU, > and mostly free memory. "pfctl -s info" registers between 800 and 1000 > states and 255 searches per second when I'm saturating my connection > with p2p traffic and using a bunch of complicated stateful firewall > rules and priority queueing. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Thanks for the reply! I appreciate it :) So my plan is basically this, have a Soekris/Kris box with Postfix + Dovecot etc, then mount the appropriate user's mail directories to my future NFS server. That way, nothing is being written on the compact Flash card in the Soekris/Alix box and it's just being passed on to the mount.