From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 7 07:33:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id HAA26244 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 07:33:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from tarpon.exis.net (stefan@tarpon.exis.net [205.252.72.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id HAA26239 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 07:33:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from stefan@localhost) by tarpon.exis.net (8.7.4/8.7.3) id KAA15851; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 10:55:44 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 10:55:44 -0500 (EST) From: Stefan Molnar To: Charles Reese cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970107135737.0066ecec@chem.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I am also interested in setting up News and at the risk of getting roasted I > would like to ask if anyone has used a multiple PC/FreeBSD system using IDE > drives. For the same price as the SCSI system one could get 3- 486s each > with 2 enhanced IDEs. (No knives be thrown) I have never seen that being used. But for all the I/O that a news server does, IDE just can not handle it. Haveing a few 486 do it, will not serve very well, you need to figure what machine the feed will goto, what machine will handle uucp, and what machine will handle the readers. And getting them synced will hurt. > >For a full feed I would suggest 2*4*4 SCSI drives spread over two fast > >controllers. What about a few 9s > >That should be running on a P128 with 198MB of RAM, and linked to the net > >with a minimum of T1. > > > >I suggest starting with something a lot less, and only taking in some > >groups :) > > > >> Required reading? > > > >http://www.isc.org/isc/inn.html > > > >> Required software? > > > >ftp://ftp.vix.com/pub/inn With NOV. It makes the expires run fast. Stefan -------------------------------------------- Stefan Molnar Team Exis.Net stefan@exis.net Member EFF Slightly Silly Team OS/2 east-coast-ambassador@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU "She turned me into a Newt! A Newt? I got better." -Monty Python --------------------------------------------