Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 03:27:49 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Some advice needed. Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970413032749.00cf3968@mixcom.com>
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At 05:59 PM 4/13/97 +1000, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: >On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: >K5 works fine with FreeBSD. 8MB is enough, especially if you have plenty >of swap. I know of a 486DX4-120 with 8 MB RAM running 30 permanent >kernel ppp (/usr/sbin/pppd) sessions. It thrashes like hell during >startup, but then it settles down. It is also running gated. I did >recommend to the owner that he give it more RAM, though. Note that pppd >is mostly swapped out for normal use. Wasn't this in an ISP environment? Using swap is slow and won't matter much for a workstation, but for a server 32Mb should be the start point. For a DNS only server, 16Mb. >As for 100 vs 10 Mbps, calculate the b/w of your modems.... PCI helps to keep down collisions, at that is what I have seen from a mix of 16 bit NICs and 10/100 PCI cards using 10bT. YMMV ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990
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