They are going to pipe 25,000 internet connections through 1 T1??? wow, lunch time is guna be slower than a dialup :P make sure you can set priority Ques on whatever firewall/routers you decide to put in place so you can give priority to DNS/mail/whatever else over web traffic...Most of the companies I've setup with over 500 users complain that a T1 is to slow..I hope that the T1 is only for users and mabey a mail server, if they are expecting to run a webserver through that as well they may have some problems. As a rule of thumb I never allow more than 1000 Desktop Users on a T1.. Dan Steele Network Admin Westnet Management. At 06:18 PM 12/29/99 -0500, Walt Sullivan wrote: >I'm consulting for a Canadian government agency that plans to allow >desktop access to the Internet for the first time next year (yes, I >know, "Forward into the 70's", but is is government). > >They think they have about 25,000 desktops (Windows 95/98, shudder). > >How can I help them predict the amount of traffic they'll see on their >T1 connection? > >Is there anybody out there running a firewall for 25K desktops that is >willing to share an order-of-magnitude guess? > >Thanks, > >Walt > >-- >Walt Sullivan >UNIX & Networks, Security & SysAdmin >waltat_private >
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