I have used machines of the category of a pentium 100 before
for such tasks, so there is no reason why a soekris would not
work for that. (NIS and kerberos)
However, given the cost difference between the soekris hardware
and something slithgly more beefy, like a comell or nexcomm box, or, for
that matter, a decent little 1U like a dell 750, why are you so
insistant on throwing everything on a little soekris box? Is it
that important to you to save 300 dollars on the machine? the soekris
is slow, and designed as a small router.
It's kind of like saying "will sphagnum moss make acceptable
toilet paper" from experience, yes it will, however, you will frequently
be more comfortable going slightly less minimalist.
-Bob
* Gustavo Rios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-04 22:15]:
> On 8/5/05, Scott Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 8/4/05, Gustavo Rios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I would like to set a obsd and soekris boxes as a server for about 100
> > > users.
> > > This box is supposed to handle NIS + Kerberos.
> > >
> > > Does such configuration can handle the task ? I mean on a performance
> > > matter.
> > > Does anybody have such configuration?
>
> I am not asking jus ton OpenBSD, but a combination of OBSD and
> Soekris. I am considering using OpenBSD+soekris for this task: (NIS
> and Kerberos) because i believe this type of service to be light for
> the amount of users i have to handle.
>
> Any other services will be handle by other hardware, like the NFS, web
> and the like. For now, let's just consider NIS and Kerberos on OBSD
> 3.7 and soekris.
>
> My concern is whether i could use OBSD with soekris. I could for
> instance use QNX with an embed NIS and kerberos to achieve paramount
> performance even on such a modest hardware and no other OS i known
> could beat. But, again, i would like to stay with OBSD.
>
> > the default config on OpenBSD can easily handle 100 users. Whether or
> > not a Soekris is the right _hardware_ platform is another matter
> > altogether. If you're handling users, as opposed to just packets, you
> > will probably want some kind of disk-based storage for their home
> > directories, NIS+ databases, etc. But then, you could do this with a
> > Soekris too with the right adapter, but you might as well use a
> > generic x86 machine at that point.
> >
> > Remember: OpenBSD is software, and runs on many platforms. Soekris is
> > x86 hardware, geared towards specific tasks (typically networking, not
> > user management, databases, web serving, etc. etc.), and can run
> > OpenBSD or other operating systems.
> >
> > If you have this firmly in mind already and I'm just misparsing your
> > English, my apologies.
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