Re: [PLUG] Local Mirrors?

[Chris Hedemark <chrish@trilug.org>]

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On Monday, April 14, 2003, at 12:55 PM, Michael C. Toren wrote:

> There could easily be significant costs, but it's difficult to quantify
> without estimating how much traffic the mirror would generate, which is
> also difficult to do.  My biggest question, though, is what would be 
> the
> advantages over using a freely available public mirror that exists 
> today?
> Is there a shortage of gentoo mirrors?

TriLUG put a lot of time & resources into setting up an ISO mirror and 
in the end it proved to be a bust.  When a dozen members try grabbing 
ISO's at the same time the effective throughput for each member is in 
the toilet.

It seems like the only way to set up an ISO mirror without incurring 
major costs is to partner with a generous university.  But they are 
likely going to want you to set the same limitations on PLUG members as 
you would have for anyone else on the Internet, so once word spreads of 
the available mirror you will run into the same problems again.  
Corporate sponsorship is even harder to get, especially bandwidth.

One option I've got some high hopes for is 802.16.  High throughput, 
great range... I think it would be interesting to set up a semi-private 
MAN on 802.16 giving Philadelphia area folks high speed access to local 
private servers, but the 802.16 network would not necessarily be a free 
gateway to the internet (though local ISP's could certainly offer 
internet gateway services off of it).  The gotcha is that 802.16 is not 
really "out there" right now, so the cost of entry is a bit of an 
unknown at this time.

So we use a 10.*.*.* network for the MAN, set up some sort of address 
management authority for that address space, and people can run 
whatever servers they want on that wireless network.  Sure, go ahead 
and put up an FTP server with all the latest ISO's.  You aren't paying 
for bandwidth, and the only people who are directly connecting to the 
network are pretty local (probably).
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