[5653] in Kerberos
Understanding Kerberized POP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Boyce)
Thu Aug 10 11:50:34 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 08:35:10 -0700
From: Tom.Boyce@jpl.nasa.gov (Tom Boyce)
Hello all,
I'm a Kerberos newbie who needs to understand how Kerberized POP access works.
Lets say that I have Eudora + Kerborized pop server + Kerberos server, and
I've set Eudora to pop the mail server every 15 minutes. Does
authentication take place every time Eudora makes a connection to the pop
server?
If I had 10,000 pop users spread out on 5 pop servers, would 1 Kerberos
server be sufficient to handle the load if that many people were poping
all day? If it would be sufficient, what system resources would be
required to handle the load (a Sparc 20, a 4CPU Sparc 1000, etc.)? Would
it be better to run Kerberos servers on each of the pop servers?
Any info would be greatly appreciated,
Tom
