Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 04:22:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some advice needed. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970414041618.27997t-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM> In-Reply-To: <19970414034150.35628@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > Hmm, besides not being an Intel, what is the main differences > > between the AMD and the Intel? > > I would say it's the price... :) I run one of their AMD 5x86/133 processors.. > the only reason they rate the processor at P75 is because it doesn't have the > memory bandwidth that a petium has... it out performs a friends P90 according > to Norton Sysinfo's CPU Benchmark... I doubt it's just the price since Intel is the real thing while AMD isn't. And isn't the 5x86 more of a 486 chip than a P5 competitor? > the best place to get more specific info would be to visit AMD's home page... Actually, that's the worst place since they will always make their product sound better. > [...] > > > Hmmm, I don't think 16 megs is enough these days for anything > > especially when it's doing something like this. > > well.. if your running a terminal server.. I'm pretty sure 16megs would be > more than plenty... remeber there isn't that much data that is used in a > terminal server... you will only end up with a max of 100k per port.. and > that means you can have around 80 ports in 8megs of ram... leaving the > rest for other stuff.. and that 100k per port figure is being overly > generous... Well, if you had telnet/rlogin as well as pppd for that term server and the machine might also use a ET card to function as a router too, it might not be enough. > > I guess things are always hard until you do it a few times or even > > the first time. I saw your example gated.conf file but am still a bit > > confused on how to get it setted up correctly. > > heh.. know what you mean... I haven't played much with it... I just got > that config file working.. and haven't played with it since.. :) It's just like when we got our ET based router working with GaiaNet, we're not touching that FreeBSD box since we don't have a backup router if it doesn't work the next time again =) > > Hmmm, that is a good reason but wouldn't a 56k not have enough > > bandwidth for the modems? > > well... if your starting out it should be fine for 5-10 modems.. though you > will EASYLY over load it.. especially if more than one or two people decide > to startup a ftp session... and once you have the 5-10 modems.. you're very > close to getting the 1k a month for T1... and in the mean time... you can > go fract t1... Hmm, isn't 5-10 modems already 640k of bandwidth while the line is 56k only? I mean even 2 28.8k modems already use more than 56k. > > What is the speed the microwave runs at? A T1 actually runs > > I don't know exactly... this is all from a short conversation about > alternate providers... (and now I can't even remeber the provider's name :( ) Hopefully you'll remember sometime. > > 1.536Mbps only. I just wished there was a way to hook up ethernet cable > > to the NSP as they are only 1.5 blocks away. > > well... talk to 'em... there might be a way... either with the telco running > dry copper for you or some way else... then you can use something like > etinc's bandwidth limiter to limit the bandwidth you will push/get... I'm not sure since it seems like they quoted me a price that includes the line to the telco so that might not be possible. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]
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