Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:29:12 -0700 From: Mark Mayo <mmayo@360networks.net> To: Nathan Vidican <nathan@vidican.com> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mirroring FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010615082912.A2283@360networks.net> In-Reply-To: <000501c0f5ab$95478940$6700000a@78lb019>; from nathan@vidican.com on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:58:05AM -0400 References: <000501c0f5ab$95478940$6700000a@78lb019>
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Hello Nathan. As an example, ftp.ca.freebsd.org right now averages about 5 to 7 Mbit/sec over a 24 hour period. Peaks during prime hours are generally between 18 and 20 Mbit/sec. The week following the 4.3 release, the server was averaging about 30 to 35 Mbit/sec. I belive to carry a full archive, roughly 50GB are needed today. The idea is that a set of "tier 1" mirrors will carry the complete archive, and a (most likely larger) set of "tier 2" mirrors will carry subsets of the main mirror (likely the latest release bits). The idea of archive.freebsd.org has been thrown around to carry all of the older release data, as you suggest. I'm not sure if any consensus was reached on the archive idea. I would suspect bandwidth needed by the archive site(s) would be fairly low. -Mark On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:58:05AM -0400, Nathan Vidican wrote: > I would like to help. I have a small amount of bandwidth which I can > contribute to help mirror the releases over FTP. I am located in Windsor, > Ontario, Canada and I currently mirror most of /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386 > locally for our own usage on our network. I would be willing to make this > site available to the public, but just need to know what's involved in > setting up a 'proper' mirror site. I would prefer to go through the 'proper' > channels and set things up right. I have currently got 2.2.2, 2.2.6, 2.2.8, > 3.0, 3.1, 3.5.1, 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 -RELEASE mirrored, with various > 4.2-STABLE snapshots as well. I would like to setup as a mirror for the > old(er) distributions which are not currently available on the main FreeBSD > ftp site; to allow those who are still running the older releases access to > the files they may require. I am also of course willing to mirror the new > stuff too. > I will commit up to 18gigabytes of storage, on my current ftp server for > this project (one hardisk), and can most likely sustain at least 5-10 users, > (depending on the bandwidth consumption). I have only got a 6 mbit pipe to > the internet, and as such must watch what I transmit so-as not to block out > any of the corporate (paid) traffic on our network. > Please let me know if this project will/could be of use to the FreeBSD > effort, and if it's desired or not at this time. I would also like to know > if anyone else may be mirroring the old(er) distributions at this time? > Lastly, I'll need to know exactly what's involved in becoming an 'official' > mirror for FreeBSD. Please let me know if this is a valid proposition. > > > Nathan Vidican > Nathan@Vidican.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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