FYI, we have a T1 connection. I have a DecAlpha Personal Workstation,
250mHz, 128Meg of ram, running Tru64-UNIX, and the AltaVista Firewall 97 as
our current firewall. The reason we are changing is because Firewall 97
was under their Campus Wide Licensing Agreement but is no longer. We would
have had to have bought Firewall 98 plus liscensing. Linux is free more or
less.
This is our second year for this configuration and our current firewall has
run fine. The only time we have seen problems, minor at that is at the
beginning of the semester before the students have a lot of classwork and
they are bored.
The other time is at the end of semester when they are trying to finish
papers and stuff like that. So, how does this additional info fit into the
picture?
At 08:21 PM 1/21/00 -0500, you wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, David Lang wrote:
>"Massively overpowered" is good enough for me to be replying to. The
>issue (especially with IPMasq where retrans and timeouts aren't part of
>the hosting OS as they are with proxies), and more especially with
>streaming media protocols such as RealAudio/RealVideo, the issue isn't CPU
>performance, it's latency. Faster CPUs decrease latency up to the point
>where you're I/O and memory bound.
>
>Traffic patterns for a bunch of students are significantly different than
>those of a bunch of people in a corporation (from what I've seen, but my
>experience with students is fairly limited.) If my coworker's children
>are any measure, streaming media connections will abound.
>
>Since Paul didn't say what kind of Internet connection he has or his
>internal network topology. Without that, there's no way to tell if the
>packet buffering issues will determine lag more than the OS, bus, and
>memory ones.
Paul Crittenden
Computer System Manager
Simpson College
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Eat right. Stay fit. Die anyway.
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