From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 29 1:45:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berbee.com (berbee.com [205.173.176.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC1E37B41A for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 01:45:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (orgfel@66-188-96-56.mad.wi.charter.com [66.188.96.56]) by berbee.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id fBT9jkJ15668 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 03:45:46 -0600 Message-Id: <200112290945.fBT9jkJ15668@berbee.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Rob Zietlow To: questions@Freebsd.org Subject: Questions about running an IRC server Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 03:45:45 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I was wondering if anyone has any expericne running an ircd. I'm looking at what sort of System/Connection requirements we might need. We are looking at setting up a small network, 2-3 computers to support 15-20 users. We'd like to have a couple servers for redundency, and to load balance. Now questions are: 1) what would be some good minimum system specs? 2) what is network overhead going to be? Any recommended connection for our small user base. 3) should this be run in a jailed environment (I am guessing so) Any other hints, tips, ideas, or web resources would be greatly appreciated. TIA Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message