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From: Nabil Zary <nabil@atlas.mip.ki.se>
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Subject: SUMMARY: 5000 Telnet users/ Best choice
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My question:
>  We have to provide telnet access to around 5000 Students
>  (for pine, irc, news, etc..).
>  We expect an average of 50-100 users logged at the same time.

Taking into consideration all the answers (thank you all!),
I choosed the following config:
A PPro 200, 128Mb (for pine/irc/news) and will keep in mind
2Mb/online user. So a memory upgrade is already planned.

The following services will be handled by separate FreeBSD boxes:
SMTP
DNS
http + Anon FTP
I am also planning a move from "pine" to web-based interface
(eg hotmail, suggestions are very welcomed)

Best regards,

Nabil Zary
Stockholm, Sweden