Re: How many modems ?
On Tue, Sep 23, 1997 at 07:41:52AM -0500, Dave Cinege wrote:
: >[1] A studly enough box to support 48 modems.
:
: Depends on dump or smart serial board. Smart, 486 66 should be comfortable,
: dumb, pentium class...maybe 100. 16MB should be OK. With the price of
: memory it won't kill you to throw in 32 either.
Ahh.. answering the phone is one thing. You need the "studliness" to handle
the pppd's and the routing. Articles I've read suggest having 2 MB RAM
per modem, after OS overhead.. What has your experience been?
: Anything you could build and sell for $2K I wouldn't classify as a server.
: : P
Oh, but you didn't see the newsbeast I built last weekend...
P-200
128 MB RAM
Pair of 2940UW's
bus0 - HP C3325A (2GB) OS & swap
HP C3325A History
HP C3325A Logs & more swap
bus1 - 4 x HP C3331A (4.3G ea) md0 for /var/spool/news
If I didn't buy that bucket o' disk, and built a 'normal' server, it
would have run about 1900...
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