From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu May 6 13: 1:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from tele-post-20.mail.demon.net (tele-post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C791526A for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 13:01:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by tele-post-20.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 10fUKS-000LS9-0K; Thu, 6 May 1999 20:01:09 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id VAA00976; Thu, 6 May 1999 21:00:34 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id VAA00323; Thu, 6 May 1999 21:00:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 21:00:24 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: russ.pagenkopf@uas.alaska.edu Cc: Arabian , FreeBSD-Hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I Want to build good machine. Message-ID: <19990506210024.A255@marder-1> References: <3.0.6.32.19990506112817.007ac1a0@qatar.net.qa> <37315DAF.26D2BF60@uk.radan.com> <3731D245.C07FE6C9@uas.alaska.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <3731D245.C07FE6C9@uas.alaska.edu>; from Russ Pagenkopf on Thu, May 06, 1999 at 09:32:55AM -0800 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 09:32:55AM -0800, Russ Pagenkopf wrote: > Mark Ovens wrote: > > Arabian wrote: > > > I would like to build P II 450 Machine, I'll use 2.2.8-STABLE, what's The > > > Best Motherboard, hard drive, and ethernet card, note this machine will > > > have very big load on the ethernet so, I want stable ethernet card which > > > can deal with heavy load as well. the machine bandwidth will be 10 Mbps, > > > and connected to 100 Mbps lan. > > > > Why not check out the spec of ftp.cdrom.com? That's got a high load on > > it's ethernet :-). The file is wcarchive.txt. I don't have the exact > > URL to hand. It's at www.cdrom.com somewhere. > > From : > > "This machine is a Xeon/500 with 4GB of memory & 1/2 terabyte of RAID 5. > The operating system is FreeBSD. > > Server machine provided by Micron Electronics. Please visit > http://www.micronpc.com/web/walnutcreek.html." > > The above box from Micron is probably a little bit overkill for most of us. > Yeah, it is rather :-). I was meaning to help choose a reliable LAN card. After all, doesn't ftp.cdrom.com have a single Intel card that's running virtually flat out 24hrs/day? > :-) > > Russ Pagenkopf > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message