[TriLUG] Server design help request

[Thunder Bear]

On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 12:13 AM, Jason Tower wrote:

> as long as you don't run X you could probably do this with pentium 166.

That fast Red Hat mirror that Elliott announced earlier this week is a 
Pentium 233 IIRC, and it absolutely hums.

> if possible, stick as much ram in the box as you can, that usually has 
> far more impact on performance than cpu horsepower.

+1

> if you can, i'd suggest using a seperate machine for 
> firewall/router/nat/dhcp in the interest of security, ease of setup 
> and administration, and troubleshooting.

+1

Thunder Bear
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