From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 13 04:43:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 271E3106566B for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:43:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brett@lariat.net) Received: from lariat.net (lariat.net [66.62.230.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF978FC15 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:43:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from WildRover.lariat.net (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.net@lariat.net [66.119.58.2] (may be forged)) by lariat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA23647; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:43:42 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <201109130443.WAA23647@lariat.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:11:29 -0600 To: bf1783@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org From: Brett Glass In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Re: Negative ping times with FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE on older Celeron system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:43:50 -0000 At 06:54 PM 9/12/2011, b. f. wrote: >If you are just upgrading now, why not use 9 BETA? Production machine. Also, whenever we create a new production box, we normally pick the release (not beta; we need to be able to do binary upgrades and this is only supported from one release to another) with the EOL that's the farthest out. We'll retire the hardware before we will run non-release code on a production box. --Brett Glass