Just to add to the possible mirrors, I'm trying to arrange a server to provide a mirror for the project at my work as well. I don't know if this is a guarantee, waiting on the higher ups to decided (policy thing, I only control the technical stuff). Regardless I'm going to find some way to help out (even if It mean finding my old rusty C/C++ skills). -David On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 20:47, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thursday 06 November 2003 22:51, Martin Kunz wrote: > > Just out of curiosity.. what would be the requirements, bandwidth and > > storage wise, to act reasonably as a mirror? > > > > Me and some of my clients will have a much easier life and sleep a > > lot better for every additional month that the community can keep the > > older releases alive, so we'd like to help out if we can! > > Not much initially. Probably outbound speeds of a T1 or better, capable > of handling or throttling so that the usage doesn't swamp your normal > services. Storage in the 5gigs area (very soft number, It may take us > QUITE a while to hit 5gigs of updates). > > Perhaps some people who run mirrors for Red Hat currently can speak to > the usage they see for just updates. -- David A. Cafaro, RHCE, CCNA dac(at)cafaro.net Systems Analyst, Georgetown University, DC Co-Chair CALUG (Columbia Area Linux Users Group), MD
