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On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Neil wrote:

> We are seriously considering useing Freebsd software but still have a
> few more question that need answering.
> 
> 
> How many dailup client can FreeBsd Internet server comfortly cope with
> on a pentium P200 with 256 MB of memory and 4 Giga bytes of hard disk??

Enough would be my guess; the limiting factor would be the serial
hardware.  

Note that ftp.cdrom.com is a PPro200 with either 256 or 512k of RAM, can
accept 1500 network users, and it's limiting factor is network bandwidth.

4GB might be too small depending on how much diskspace usage per user
you're going to allow.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major