From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Apr 24 07:42:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA09493 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 07:42:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bigbrother (bigbrother.rstcorp.com [206.99.251.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA09488 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 07:42:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by bigbrother (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA03342 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:37:58 -0400 Received: from atp.rstcorp.com(206.99.251.77) by bigbrother.rstcorp.com via smap (V2.0) id xma003340; Thu, 24 Apr 97 10:37:20 -0400 Received: from hazard (hazard [206.99.251.71]) by rstcorp.com (8.8.1/8.8.1) with SMTP id KAA18623 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:41:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:40:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "David H. Hovemeyer" X-Sender: daveho@hazard To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: building an NFS server Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Howdy, The company I work for is going to buy a PC to serve as an NFS (and Samba) server for about 40 workstations and PCs. We're planning on using FreeBSD as the server's OS. The approximate hardware configuration we have in mind is: - P6, 200 MHz - 64MB RAM - Ultra Wide SCSI - 4GB SCSI hard drive - 100BaseTx ethernet I am interested in recommendations on what hardware to use, especially for the motherboard, SCSI controller, and network card. Stability, performance, and compatability with FreeBSD are the main concerns. I would also be interested in hearing recommendations for vendors, especially those who could offer a complete system. Also: are there any NFS-related issues that we should expect by using FreeBSD as the NFS server? We have a variety of client OS's, including SunOS 4.1.x, Solaris 2.x, IRIX, and HP-UX. For example, does FreeBSD support NFS locking? Please CC me, as I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks, Dave -- David Hovemeyer daveho@rstcorp.com Reliable Software Technologies http://www.rstcorp.com/~daveho