Re: masq server hardware req's

1998-12-04 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, David Stern wrote: > On Thu, 03 Dec 1998 04:09:47 PST, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 12:06:10AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > Sorry for the dig, but "Only in America" > > > > America has nothing to do with it. Only in the net-idiot land of > > Gates

Re: masq server hardware req's

1998-12-04 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > > modem or something ... no problem. Your concern is going to be with disk > > space. If users leave their pop3 mail in the server, mail files can grow > > quite large. This is particularly true at Christmas

Re: masq server hardware req's

1998-12-03 Thread David Stern
On Thu, 03 Dec 1998 04:09:47 PST, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 12:06:10AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > > Sorry for the dig, but "Only in America" > > America has nothing to do with it. Only in the net-idiot land of > Gatesville and Windowstown. Not exactly. Christmas email

Re: masq server hardware req's

1998-12-03 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 12:06:10AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > Sorry for the dig, but "Only in America" America has nothing to do with it. Only in the net-idiot land of Gatesville and Windowstown. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http:/

Re: masq server hardware req's

1998-12-03 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 10:59:35PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > That P166 with 64MB is severe overkill for a mail/DNS/firewall. You don't > need anywhere near that kind of CPU. Most of your time is going to be > spent waiting for the next network packet. Do I hear idle CPU time? Do I hear rc

Re: masq server hardware req's

1998-12-03 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, George Bonser wrote: > modem or something ... no problem. Your concern is going to be with disk > space. If users leave their pop3 mail in the server, mail files can grow > quite large. This is particularly true at Christmastime here in the US > where Windows users have a fondn

Re: masq server hardware req's

1998-12-03 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
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 >

masq server hardware req's

1998-12-03 Thread Sibuyas Bombay
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 runni