From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Oct 25 01:36:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA22586 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 01:36:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA22581 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 01:36:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from xroot@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA17245; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 01:36:28 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199810250936.BAA17245@implode.root.com> To: Andre Oppermann cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: another record In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:40:12 +0200." <3632D5DC.27B5F55C@pipeline.ch> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 01:36:28 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> As for planned upgrades, we'll be going to Xeon/4xx in a month or so. The >> main reason for doing this is the increased memory capacity - the new machine >> will have 4GB of RAM. This will allow us to increase the FTP limit to at >> least 10000 users. My main concern at the moment is that we don't have >> sufficient network bandwidth to support that many users (we're just hitting >> the limit of our 100Mbps circuit with 3500 users). We're talking with CRL >> about our options. I'm advocating gigabit ethernet, but we may have to >> settle for multiple 100Mbps circuits in the short term. > >How would you do that? With multiple IP's and round-robin DNS Yes. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message