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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!spcuna!tzlink.j51.com!lepslog From: lepslog@j51.com (Louis Epstein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DNS, FTP & Mail - for ISP Date: 3 Oct 1995 16:22:48 GMT Organization: TZ-Link, a public-access online community in Nyack, NY. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <44ro0o$r9l@tzlink.j51.com> References: <44mmsd$1lda@news.gate.net> <44ppr6$s1h@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: j51.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : Thomas Heber <heber_t@gate.net> wrote: : > We are in the process of becoming an ISP. We will also be doing WWW : > design and publishing. Starting out with a Sprint T1. : >For cost reasons we would like to use FreeBSD on a : >486DX2-66MHz,32MB,2GB,EISA.This will be a dedicated server for DNS, FTP and : >Mail only. : > : >- Can that be done with the configuration shown above ? : Yes, but for a machine to be installed today, i'd rather go with PCI : than EISA. I'm starting an ISP with 486 DX4-120s,which requires me to use VLB. 48MB RAM each,13GB storage on news server,6GB on the everything-else server...but only a 384K line for cost reasons. Any idea of the likely user load before I'd need to upgrade? (DOES FreeBSD have problems addressing over 64MB?)