From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 02:45:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9E7716A41F for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:45:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7B943D4C for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:45:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C81795D56; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:45:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24322-09; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:45:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-79-217.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.79.217]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E14F45D06; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:45:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4328E055.7090502@mac.com> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:45:41 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050801 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eol1@yahoo.com References: <20050914223232.48796.qmail@web51915.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050914223232.48796.qmail@web51915.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Sun X2100 servers: Anybody see any glaring issues with FBSD6 in amd64 mode with them? 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: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:45:47 -0000 Peter Thoenen wrote: > On an unrelated to FBSD question, anybody happen to know > what a "sun service processor" is .. its in the options. Curious if FBSD can > even use it or if its an OS independent funciton. I don't know about your earlier questions, but the SSP provides in-band and out-of-band management capabilities via an optional daughter card with a DB-25 serial port and a 10/100 ethernet port. It lets you do things from the very simple like power cycling the system to complex stuff like adjust clustering and failover stuff for the high-end E10000 and E15000 Starfire boxes. Hardware fault tolerance monitoring, failure alerts, and so forth. Some of the capabilities are OS-independent, but the fancier stuff probably wants you to be running Solaris to use. -- -Chuck