On 8/5/05, Scott Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/4/05, Gustavo Rios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to set a obsd and soekris boxes as a server for about 100 > > users. > > This box is supposed to handle NIS + Kerberos. > > > > Does such configuration can handle the task ? I mean on a performance > > matter. > > Does anybody have such configuration?
I am not asking jus ton OpenBSD, but a combination of OBSD and Soekris. I am considering using OpenBSD+soekris for this task: (NIS and Kerberos) because i believe this type of service to be light for the amount of users i have to handle. Any other services will be handle by other hardware, like the NFS, web and the like. For now, let's just consider NIS and Kerberos on OBSD 3.7 and soekris. My concern is whether i could use OBSD with soekris. I could for instance use QNX with an embed NIS and kerberos to achieve paramount performance even on such a modest hardware and no other OS i known could beat. But, again, i would like to stay with OBSD. > the default config on OpenBSD can easily handle 100 users. Whether or > not a Soekris is the right _hardware_ platform is another matter > altogether. If you're handling users, as opposed to just packets, you > will probably want some kind of disk-based storage for their home > directories, NIS+ databases, etc. But then, you could do this with a > Soekris too with the right adapter, but you might as well use a > generic x86 machine at that point. > > Remember: OpenBSD is software, and runs on many platforms. Soekris is > x86 hardware, geared towards specific tasks (typically networking, not > user management, databases, web serving, etc. etc.), and can run > OpenBSD or other operating systems. > > If you have this firmly in mind already and I'm just misparsing your > English, my apologies. > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED],darkuncle.net} || 0x5537F527 > encrypted email to the latter address please > http://darkuncle.net/pubkey.asc for public key
