Re: [Sheflug] Processor power needed by ssh.

[meltie <lists [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 21 May 2004 10:39, Rob Keeling wrote:
> I am just about to install a gateway server into our network to provide
> external access to students work.
>
> My idea is to use Samba/winbind/Pam_mount to mount our NT home share for
> the user as /home/user/share, then use a scponly shell to provide ssh
> encripted access to that share remotely. Clients can then use WinSCP if
> they insist on using a windows box.
>
> Hopeing to use SuSE 9.1 for the install.
>
> Question is, anyone have any ideas on what sort of processor power I
> will need?
>
> I have a PII 300 system that I can use,  or a Celeron 433 both with
> 128Mb ram. I would not expect massive traffic as it will be limited by
> our 2Mb connection to the outside world.
>
> Am I being un-realistic on the hardware here?

I do pretty much this with a P133 that also does traffic shaping for our 
cable line. It's not too bad but don't expect to be that fast serving 
files over the internal network.

The major things that will help are a RAM upgrade and a new disk interface.

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