From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 08:29:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA15656 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 08:29:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gage.com (auth.gage.com [205.217.2.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA15651 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 08:29:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from octopus by gage.com (NX5.67d/NX4.2M) id AA01006; Wed, 2 Oct 96 10:29:08 -0500 Received: from squid by octopus.gage.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0S) id AA22043; Wed, 2 Oct 96 10:23:26 -0500 Received: from insomnia by squid.gage.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0S) id AA17731; Wed, 2 Oct 96 10:30:15 -0500 Message-Id: <9610021530.AA17731@squid.gage.com> Received: by insomnia.gage.com (NX5.67g/NX3.0X) id AA01467; Wed, 2 Oct 96 10:30:20 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.0 v146.2) In-Reply-To: <199610021350.JAA02274@mispwoso.nosc.mil> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.3) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.146.2) From: Ben Black Date: Wed, 2 Oct 96 10:30:17 -0500 To: Craig Huckabee Subject: Re: Optimizing system performance w/ large scale system Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <199610021350.JAA02274@mispwoso.nosc.mil> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk one major flaw in this is that you've put all your eggs in one basket. better to use 2 smaller machines providing a subset of the services you list. also, are you using a 21040 or 21140 based ethernet card? is you are using regular etehrnet, i suggest getting a 21140 based card and doing fast ethernet instead of fddi. it's much less expensive for NICs, routers, and hubs/switches. b3n