From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 30 6:41: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.hub.org (mobile.acadiau.ca [131.162.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A058C37B71C for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 06:41:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by mobile.hub.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2UEf0u75097; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:41:00 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: mobile.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:41:00 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Martin McCormick Cc: Subject: Re: Do IBM Netfinity Servers Run Freebsd Well? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG we run several SMP Netfinity servers, and, except for a bug in 4.2-RELEASE (since fixed), haven't had a hiccup ... On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Martin McCormick wrote: > The subject is the main question. I recently posted > questions about high-end Dell systems that we might use to > replace a pair of Suns that are 5 years old. I have since found > out that we buy IBM Netfinity servers for our enterprise systems. > > How well do they work with freebsd? Is there anything we > need to be especially concerned about? > > These boxes will be running the ISC bind and dhcp servers > for our campus which serves about 23,000 IP numbers and counting. > > The present Sun boxes are 140-MHZ Sparcs with 512 Megs of > RAM, each. They are doing fine, but we know that one day, the > end will come. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message