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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!gatech!cc.gatech.edu!terminus!kzin From: kzin@terminus.gatech.edu (John Rudd) Subject: BSD/386 and 50Mhz 486 Message-ID: <kzin.717822950@cc.gatech.edu> Summary: 2 questions Keywords: maximum users, drivers Sender: news@cc.gatech.edu Organization: Georgia Tech College of Computing Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 03:15:50 GMT Lines: 23 I'm looking in to running 2 486/50's running BSD/386 by BSDI. I need to know what multi-port boards it has drivers for (since most of them only come with drivers for sysv), or that I can get drivers for, and how many users people think it'll support. each will be EISA machines, networked to a third box that provides a 56k line to the internet. Each will have a 1.2 GB scsi drive (one for users, one for news). Both will play NFS server for the other. I'm wanting to hang 24 users off of each machine. That sound overtly unreasonable? (no one will be doing anything off of the console.. except maybe regular terminal like things..definitely no heavy x work or anything. Also, most of the things I expect people to do are vi, news, mail, and network chat/mud programs. Probably some people will be compiling stuff, but I don't expect it to be widespread) (alternate configurations are welcome too, but try to keep the price range of this setup in mind (under $30k for the two 486's and their multiport boards)) John Rudd -- kzin@cc.gatech.edu ex- kzin@ucscb.ucsc.edu All opinions expressed here are my own, and no one elses. --If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, leave the area immediately, seek shelter, and cover your head. Do NOT Taunt Happy Fun Ball.