From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 14:19:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA05859 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 14:19:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA05853 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 14:19:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from InfoWest.COM (infowest.com [204.17.177.10]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id OAA28389 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 14:19:25 -0800 Received: from einstein (Einstein.infowest.com [204.17.177.95]) by InfoWest.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA11320 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:24:50 -0701 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960315221713.006bd254@infowest.com> X-Sender: agifford@infowest.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:17:13 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org From: "Aaron D. Gifford" Subject: Hardware/software suggestions for Caching Proxy on FreeBSD Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I need to put together one or more FreeBSD systems to act as caching proxies for about 1500-2000 users for an ISP. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions regarding hardware or software to run to get the best performance. I haven't done this before (caching proxy), but I hope to learn quickly. I''ve heard that Apache with Harvest can be used on the software side, but I have no clue as to what is involved yet. On the hardware side, has anyone had success/problems with some of the Pentium Pro 200 systems? I was thinking 1-2 PPro200's's w/2-4 SCSI HD's in each would handle the load. Thanks for any ideas, warnings, suggestions, etc. Aaron --=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=-- Aaron D. Gifford InfoWest, 1845 W. Sunset Blvd, St. George, UT 84770 InfoWest Networking Phone: (801) 674-0165 FAX: (801) 673-9734 Visit InfoWest at: "http://www.infowest.com/" ICBM: 37.07847 N, 113.57858 W "Southern Utah's Finest Network Connection" --=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--