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To: Jacob Suter <jsuter@uranus.intrastar.net>
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Subject: Re: [fbsd-isp] Designing for a very large ISP 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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>> Note: this is no FreeBSD-bashing. I'd always prefer a FreeBSD-based
>> machine to an SGI Origin 2000 if it wasn't that difficult to find
>> PC hardware which suits our needs wrt scalability/performance.
>> Any recommendations for high-end PC hardware are welcome.
>
>wcarchive seems to run fine on their single P6/233 - 512MB system... I am
>pretty sure its not packed with special components JKH made with a
>soldering iron :)

   Actually, wcarchive has 1GB of RAM and was assembled by me. The hardware
list can be found in ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/archive-info/wcarchive.txt.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project