Re: masq server hardware req's
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Sibuyas Bombay wrote:
> Hi !
> I have an old pentium 90 here with 32 mb physical mem on it and I am planning
> to use it as an IP Masquerading server / DNS caching only server and Mail server
> with a *.ml.org (as soon as they recover) for our group of 20 users and 9 winblows
> boxes.
> I already have this kind of server running great on a Pentium166 w/ 64 mb
> RAM and was just wondering if i can salvage this old puter of mine and give
> it some use.
> Do you think that old puters hardware can do the kind of work i want it to
> do and still perform as good as the other one or do i need to upgrade something
> ?
> thanks,
> Sib
Sure. Have run DNS/Ip Masq on a 486-66, 12MB, with mail-gateway for 100
users, news server, and Apache Proxy.
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