Thanks for the input guys. Our ISP provides us with an 7Mb ADSL line. We are close enough to the central office that our line has been rated 95% of the potential bandwidth capability -- ~6.5Mbs downstream and ~700Kbs upstream.
Each user is considered a single client host. No users are permitted to run services and/or server hosts. All users in question are general surfer-type users. Usage expectations include: surfing the web, chat (icq,msn), games, P2P apps (Kazaa, Morpheous), telnet, ftp. No servers or server applications will be permitted to run inside the firewall. Also, I plan to shape bandwidth, using HTB, so that certain applications do not drain bandwidth (e.g. Kazaa) and I can implement a dedicated amoutn of bandwidth to certain uses (e.g. 1Mb down and 200Kb up for web surfing). All users will be issued private IP's and there is an expectation that active concurrent users will range from 10% in off-peak times to 60% during peak hours. Hope this clears things up and, thanks again. Todd Ray Olszewski wrote: > > At 10:34 AM 9/4/02 -0400, Todd MacDougall wrote: > >I plan on using the Bering distro to service up to 75-80 users. Are > >there any configurations that I should be addressing before doing this? > >For example, should I be changing cache sizes? > > > >Thanks in advance for any assistance that can be provided. > > 1. With or without NAT? (This many users, if all active at once, could > strain the system's available ports for NAT'd connections.) > > 2. What bandwidth on the Internet side? (Affects the hardware you'll need.) > > 3. Does "users" = hosts (actual computers, I mean)? How many *simultaneous* > connections do you anticipate? (Could affect hardware requirements on the > LAN side.) > > 4. In general terms, what do you expect the users to be doing? Any unusual > or "problem" services involved? > > The number by itself does not suggest anything special. The details may, > however ... both answers to the specific questions I asked and a general > description of the planned service offering. > > -- > -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- > Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo > Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
