[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you all for your answers. For FreeBSD, I know it would be cheap > but : > - we don't need a high time accuracy.
In which case any Linux server will do just fine. > - we need to take into account the corporate environment (who manages > the server ? what about the maintenance (soft and hard) ? who patches > it ? etc) > - we need to keep the network as homogeous as possible. For my corporate network I set up a total of 6 servers, two in each of our three main locations. I let every client machine (mostly unix and Win* servers but also some end-user boxes) connect to all six servers, since they can easily handle 10-100 K client machines each. Average load from 100K clients on a single server would be 100K request/reply packets every 64 seconds, or about 1500 request/second. Since each packet is very short, this is on the order of 1 Mbit/s, i.e. any PC produced within the last 10-15 years can handle this without breaking a sweat. The above was for worst-case loads, i.e. after a full reset of all clients at the same time. A more normal/average load is 1/8 of this, with each client sending a request every 512 seconds. Terje -- - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching" _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
