BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Take the work off the router and onto the server, you want a situation where
> you aren't dependant upon peripheral devices. So dhcp, dns lookup want to
> be on your server, that paves the way for a faster web too by using
> cacheing.
Very true.
Our house media server doubles as a NAT enabled gateway to the
Internet, provides proxy DNS, and runs a squid web proxy as well.
It seems to handle the needs of 5 Internet savvy adults,
including the capture and playback of video over the network
without ever having so much as a hick-up. Its a 2GHz AMD64
with 1 GB of RAM running 64 bit Ubuntu.
It is not uncommon to have someone sitting in the luv sack
surfing the web or playing a movie on the tv attached to the
media server while the server captures another show from
cable, someone else plays a second movie across the network,
another plays MP3's from a client station, and two other people
surf the net from other rooms (routing the traffic through the
server). Its even possible to do all that AND burn a DVD in
the server's drive. Even with all that going on, CPU
utilization never breaks past 50 percent.
:)
Thad
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