Can FreeBSD withstand this kind of network load??

[David Kelly]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 02:17:31AM -0700, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
> 
> What's even funny about this is that he brought that
> pc he will turn into a router in our office so that we
> can install freebsd-4.11 with this specs:
> 
> pentium III - 500 Mhz
> memory  64 MB.
> HD      4 GB

IIRC when ftp.cdrom.com was setting all time world records for 24 hour
ftp traffic on a single CPU it was FreeBSD on a PII, PIII, or Xeon of
about that clock.  Had more disk and memory but only a couple NICs.
Often 3000 simultaneous ftp sessions.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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