Dialup Firewall/router

[JD Runyan]

On Tue, Nov ,  at 04:30:09PM -0600, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JD Runyan" <Jason.Runyan at nitckc.usda.gov>
> 
> 
> > I have limited experience with the webramp.  It works adequately for
> > a small business.  I would not use it for more than 5-10 users, and that
> > would be if they are light users.
> 
> Dial-up would be pretty poor performance if five or more users were on at
> once.  Two or three usually manage pretty well unless they're downloading or
> browsing heavy graphics at the same time, but more than that and you do take
> quite a hit.
> 
With all of the things I do, dial-up is too slow for just me.  The idea I
proposed is for a best case when having to use dial-up.  I recommend
having mail and squid on the box, so that the traffic over the dial-up
line would be reduced to a mimumum.  Squid would cache files, and the
mail server would collect the mail, so that 5 or more users aren't each
checking every 1-10 minutes.  You could have fetchmail do the job once
every so often, and generate less overall traffic.

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