Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:54:36 -0500 From: Mike Galvez <galvez@virginia.edu> To: David Robillard <david.robillard@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sun Fire x2100 Message-ID: <20070104205436.GI260@virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <226ae0c60701041229k5d7aa426vefecfc73b09e53e0@mail.gmail.com> References: <226ae0c60701041229k5d7aa426vefecfc73b09e53e0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:29:05PM -0500, David Robillard wrote:
> >Just finished searching the archives and net and turned up a few
> >answers. I also checked the AMD64 release notes for FBSD 6.1.
> >
> >Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Sun Fire X2100? Any caveats I should know
> >about? Looks like it should be a simple install and run. We will be
> >using these servers as outbound SMTP servers so they will be running
> >just the minimum mail services, smtp-auth, and clamAV.
>
> Hi DAve,
>
> I had a Sun Fire X2100 in here a year ago to test it. It installed ok
> using FreeBSD/amd64 RELEASE-6.0. My guess is that it should be alright
> with 6.1 or the upcoming 6.2.
>
> Your best bet is to get a Sun rep loan you one of them so that you can
> try it out. If they refuse, the sometimes have some in their own
> offices which you usually can go to and try it.
>
> Here are the ifconfig(8) and (rather long) dmesg(8) output from the
> Sun Fire X2100 running a GENERIC FreeBSD/amd64 RELEASE-6.0 kernel on
> January 8th, 2006.
>
David,
I also have a few of these machines. They are running FreeBSD 6.2-BETA2 and
have been in service since October with no problems. I plan to bring them
up to Stable as soon as it's ready.
I am only using the bge ethernet adapters.
HTH
-Mike
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