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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.
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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?)