Re: [9fans] standalone authserver on CF card

[john@csplan9.rit.edu]

>> Moin,
>>
>> I have to upgrade parts of my Plan 9 system. I'm thinking of using a
>> soekris 5501 or 48xx as my authentication server. It would be nice to use
>> a CF Card for storage but I'm not sure about the read/write cycles. Does
>> anyone run a Plan 9 server on a system without rotating parts?
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Matthias
>
> yes.  it works fine.  however, if you have an internet-facing network
> with abused protocols such as ftp, you may wish to have a more powerful
> processor.
>
> - erik

ftp was a major problem for my standalone cpu server; I was getting so
many connection attempts that it was becoming hard to use the system.
I eventually disabled the ftp daemon.  Has anyone hacked ftpd to make
such attempts less attractive or less disruptive?


John