From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 15 03:51:35 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17989106568B for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:51:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve.bertrand@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pb0-f54.google.com (mail-pb0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC4B8FC12 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:51:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbbro2 with SMTP id ro2so4990815pbb.13 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:51:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wktEM6Nohdmg20bIsphhIsFJX/lNYUVFP1KV8LwlKxU=; b=eth6qoYKlRkw6rYoOOmqs9uCxvsPkYAMUMXvegpS3D7uM0AO0E6s//cEPLSjKfyOQk 2C5x10Kkl7zqi+5t1K3t15vLff2EaB6DQ5AyhNSRyItEDiIRW9O0SSh2S8U1xNn/Dzaz +SSGLsLbnclIhnkpjKDpLuHqwd46Az6M4Hmo/sSV+graNEtnx8G8vubZ9bbVBfL0LSJo p0r8RJ0y5eXZKQKvWoqH7iqkotDvG4/5ULa5ZQJN+ZuZ2L/Wg0+m2Y3bxIqh/pQhOtCV x8j5moBe6jPlc5f9hLKRpXEELoYl/TUc9Ie+xWAKfdTXpV1P/onR0l+/fDoLZiiydEo0 ASGw== Received: by 10.68.203.7 with SMTP id km7mr15784496pbc.7.1339732294689; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:51:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.193.135.217] (static-66-225-133-217.ptr.terago.net. [66.225.133.217]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id pg3sm11753604pbc.2.2012.06.14.20.51.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:51:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FDAB144.6040102@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:51:32 -0600 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Felder References: <4FDAA9F3.8050308@gmail.com> <4FDAAE17.5000300@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Uptime [OT] 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: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:51:35 -0000 On 14/06/2012 9:43 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:37:59 -0500, Steve Bertrand > wrote: > >> That's hardcore homie... wow! >> What does this box survive to do? > > > Transparent traffic shaping/firewalling via IPFW; it's not actually > visible to the internet. There isn't much load at all, but the hardware > is quickly aging. The dual power supply has saved it a few times, too. I > think there's another server which I believe is close to 2600 days > uptime but I'll have to brainstorm and see if I can remember which one > it is. lmao... you must be a sysadmin ;) IPFW is all I've used on FreeBSD. I designed an ISP edge based on Microtic hardware with flash-based FBSD installs with Quagga and IPFW. I was hesitant to change to anything else, because I wrote an awful lot of Perl code that automated IPFW changes across the network. I don't use FBSD as much as I used to, but I still stick to my roots and write most of my code on it. I don't maintain many servers with it anymore though. This is why I thought I'd speak up... to let everyone know I'm still alive and kicking. Apparently, so is one of my boxes ;) Steve