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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!ais.net!europa.clark.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news.mathworks.com!news.pbi.net!news.digicity.net!usenet From: Pixel Boy <pixelboy@digicity.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Any INND/Satellite solutions Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 21:41:05 -0700 Organization: Dewey Decimal System Lines: 28 Message-ID: <337E8861.7FD7@comsec.net> References: <01bc615e$5f441a10$0f29eccf@kahuna> Reply-To: pixelboy@pop3.digicity.net NNTP-Posting-Host: sidewinder.comsec.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (WinNT; I) To: Kurt Schafer <kschafer@cyberbeach.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41174 Kurt Schafer wrote: > > Are there any solutions available for FreeBSD to bring in newsfeeds to an > INND server via satellite dish ? Well, NCIT (formerly PageSat) and now bankrupt had a solution that worked fine. The former owner of PageSat before selling off to NCIT is trying to revive the service. I think they have a website up at http://www.pc-sat.com although I was unable to connect to the server just now when I tried. Financial and logistical problems still plague the service, so use caution. There is only one other provider that I'm aware of, and unfortunately their name escapes me at the moment. I think it is Planet Connect in either North or South Carolina. > Also, if I want to use 4 4gig drives for a news spool, is there any > significant performance hit if I use ccd to combine the drives into a > logical unit ? Is this in fact the preferred procedure ? This is a good question and I hope someone posts a response. Our news box gets bogged down in disk I/O and when budget permits, we definitely plan to upgrade it to FW SCSI or Ultra SCSI. I keep wishing that FreeBSD would come out with support for a hardware RAID controller so that we could employ striping. Anything to reduce the disk bottleneck. Damien