On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 05:39:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! > > I consider running my own node and have the following Questions: > (By the way, you really should put some examples about bandwith, traffic and > so on in the faq-section!) > > 1. > I?ve DSL with a variable IP that changes every 24 hours. My upstream bandwith > is 20 (perhaps soon 40) kByte/s. > Can I run a node under these circumstances that is usefull to the > freenet-project?
Yes. > Is there more upstream- or downstream-traffic? It's roughly symmetrical. Depending on your usage. > > 2. > Is there any difference between these possibillities: > a, I run my node 24 hours when I run it, but not every day. This is okay. > b, I run my node all the time, but it has to reconnect every 24 hours and > gets a new IP address every time. This is better. > c, I run my node a few hours every day, e.g. every night from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. This isn't so good. More uptime is generally better. > > 3. > I would by a seperate PC as a server that doesn?t need too much energy. Would > a Via CPU 1Ghz be enough? Or a old pentium 3 700Mhz? How much RAM do I need > for 20 (40) kb/s? Probably. You need around 192MB for the node... although people have made them run in considerably less... > > 4. > What traffic have I to expect or what bandwith is indeed used all the time of > my 20 (40) kb/s? You can throttle it down to 10kB/sec if you need to. But if you have a monthly limit you will have problems. > > 5. > How much HD space do I need? (When a DSL-flat for my node is costing 400$ a > year, I don?t want to destroy the performance of my node by having too few HD > space!!!) The default is 256MB, which is rather small, or 10% of available disk space (on windows). I recommend you increase this to a reasonably large size. 20GB is a bit large, but many people have nodes with even bigger stores. 5GB should be useful to you and the network. As much as you can afford, really, although really big stores may cause more memory usage. > > 6. > Do you know if its possible to install the software on gentoo-linux? > (That is only theoretecal, I?m still a absuolute newbie cocerning linux!!!) Yes, it is possible. I'm not sure you should be using gentoo if you're a complete newbie though. :) > > 7.Have you any experience in running a node on a rootserver? What CPU and RAM > would I need to serve a bandwith of 2Mbit (up and down) ? What's a rootserver? You mean a vhost? To serve 2Mbps, you'd need a bigger CPU and more RAM... it's been done though.. > > 8. Are there any mechanisms included in freenet that prefer the distribution > of small files like text? Otherwise, freenet could be "kept small" easily > just by transfering some huge files which need a lot of traffic. If there were, people who want to share big files would simply split the big files into lots of small textfile-sized chunks. Sorry, we have to live with that. Besides which, there is small porn, large porn, small politically interesting sites, large politically interesting videos, largish leaked software... size is not always a good indicator of content. And there is such a thing as "cover traffic". Although obviously I don't endorse any illegal files that may be transferred over Freenet (except the Diebold files! ;) ). > In other words: I don't want that there are a few people who share there > movies and that makes the biggest part of my traffic and slows freenet down. > > Thanks > Fred -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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