Hi, I have been running a mini ISP with what I could only describe as a pretty 'unique' setup:
It is all running of a Debian 2.2 box. It has 5 Stallion 8 port serial cards providing 40 PPP dialin lines. (I had to patch the kernel to add support for more than 4 boards) I am running Squid with transparent proxy on the same box. It is also running ipchains firewall / masquerading. The hardware specs are as follows: Intel Pentium III - 933 mhz Inbuilt sym53c896-1 SCSI controller. Inbuilt eepro100 ethernet controller 512 MB Ram I am a little concerned that I may be overdoing things. In particular I am worried that I/O might not be keeping up. Some users have complained about slow download speeds and timeouts. Does this sound like a ridiculous way to run dialup? Is there any way I can diagnose I/O usage, etc. thanks, Iain. P.S. Please CC replies to me. -- public key available at http://www.minihub.org/~iain/iain.asc
