From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Apr 13 01:34:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA23849 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 01:34:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA23841 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 01:34:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id DAA16404; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 03:35:33 -0500 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma016396; Sun Apr 13 08:35:12 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970413032749.00cf3968@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 03:27:49 -0500 To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Some advice needed. Cc: isp@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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