From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 18:08:52 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6EF016A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:08:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4026943D31 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:08:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j2GI8n628624; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:08:49 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200503161808.j2GI8n628624@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: darryl@osborne-ind.com Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:08:49 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <005001c52a52$721dfd20$0701a8c0@darryl> from "Darryl Hoar" at Mar 16, 2005 12:03:22 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DHCP server performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:08:52 -0000 > > Greetings, > I want to setup a DHCP server on my internal (private 192.168.1.X) network. > I already have a Freebsd machine on the network as a webserver. > > Should I dedicate an entire machine to being a DHCP server ? Or will > the load be minimal and I can put the DHCP server functionality on my > webserver ? For just a private internal network, it would hardly notice the extra load. I assume you won't have thousands of machines coming in and out regularly, but only a few dozen at the most coming in a few times per day. No problem. Some of our sites have several hundred machines using DHCP, on a machine with web, DNS, majordomo, squid proxy, squirrel web based Email running. About the only thing that slows them down is spamassasin/procmail when lots of Email comes in. ////jerry > > thanks in advance, > Darryl > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >