From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 19 05:24:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA04190 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 05:24:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from pegasus.dlc.fi (pegasus.dlc.fi [194.251.35.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA04180 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 05:24:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from raccoon@localhost) by pegasus.dlc.fi (8.8.2/8.7.3) id PAA22212 for isp@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 15:24:19 +0200 (EET) From: "Antti Rytsola" Message-Id: <9611191524.ZM22208@pegasus.dlc.fi> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 15:24:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: Dror Matalon "Re: Router Purchase - the bottom line" (Nov 15, 11:33am) References: X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.3 08feb96 MediaMail) To: isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Router Purchase - the bottom line Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="PART-BOUNDARY=.19611191524.ZM22208.dlc.fi" Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk --PART-BOUNDARY=.19611191524.ZM22208.dlc.fi Content-Description: Text Content-Type: text/plain ; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Zm-Decoding-Hint: mimencode -q -u > My original thinking was that I've seen disk fail more than anything > on our FreeBsd servers so that I didn't feel comfortable with the > idea of having a box with a disk running as a router. If I remember right the card is installed in to the machine but it's not used by anything, just taking up some power. So why run anything impo= rtant on the machine? Just put some old 386 board on it without harddisks and e= =2Eg. leave it on the hdd controller failure prompt or something.. -- = Antti Ryts=F6l=E4 Data Link Connections raccoon@dlc.fi = = --PART-BOUNDARY=.19611191524.ZM22208.dlc.fi--