Luke Dean wrote:
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, David Duong wrote:
I'm planning to redoing my home network. I currently have one server
(Opteron 170) that is currently a NAS, Email, and DNS server (btw, the
main OS is FreeBSD). I was thinking of purchasing an Alix2c3/Soekris
5501 and use it as a Email + DNS server. Then dedicate my main server
as a FreeBSD NFS server.
My question is, has anyone installed a mail + DNS server on a
ALIX/Soekris PC? If so, is it able to handle the load?
I received a Soekris 4801 for Christmas 2005. I put FreeBSD 6 on it.
It's my home network's gateway to the outside world, router, firewall
(pf), dns server (bind), time server (ntpd), and socks proxy (nylon).
I wanted this to be a highly reliable machine, so I opted not to install
a hard drive. It boots from the compact flash card, mounted read-only
so it won't wear out. I didn't want to trust my email or web content to
a memory disk, so I've got those services running on another box. It's
running sendmail just for nightly status reports, but that's probably
not what you're interested in.
It wasn't easy to set this up, but it was very rewarding. FreeBSD's
diskless startup code was in a state of flux when I put this box
together, but I expect it's a lot better now. I've been happy with it.
I'm tempted to try upgrading it to FreeBSD 7 on some rainy weekend, and
I may even install a DHCP server on it this time.
I'm not sure what numbers you're interested in for determining if the
box can handle the load. top registers no load, a mostly idle CPU,
and mostly free memory. pfctl -s info registers between 800 and 1000
states and 255 searches per second when I'm saturating my connection
with p2p traffic and using a bunch of complicated stateful firewall
rules and priority queueing.
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Thanks for the reply! I appreciate it :)
So my plan is basically this, have a Soekris/Kris box with Postfix +
Dovecot etc, then mount the appropriate user's mail directories to my
future NFS server. That way, nothing is being written on the compact
Flash card in the Soekris/Alix box and it's just being passed on to the
mount.
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