From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 07:32:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA15415 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:32:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sergio.lenzi ([200.247.23.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA15383 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:32:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lenzi@localhost) by sergio.lenzi (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA01715; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:33:13 GMT Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:33:13 +0000 () From: "Lenzi, Sergio" X-Sender: lenzi@sergio To: Ali Lomonaco cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SOCKS Hardware Requirements In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Ali Lomonaco wrote: > > > I am trying to a proxy server that will handle about 40 windows > boxes behind it? I have no idea what I should build it with. Would a P90 > with 24mb RAM do good? And would adding SCSI enhance performance? It depends on the programs you are going to execute on your windows machines. I have a "user" that executes only telnet 3270 for a cics application running on MVS (ibm mainfraimes with tcp). the FreeBSD machine is a 386/dx40 with 200Mb of disk and 8Mb of memory, an ne2000 card and a slip connection to the master site at 38kbps. The machine uses a proxy server (cached) to service http & ftp and a socks5 to server the telnets. This machine has 40 windows in the ethernet side... and performs very well compared to a solution using sna/tcp. The hole "thing" was setted up in 1 week. Sergio Lenzi. Unix consult.