Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 13:06:35 -0400 From: Chip Morton <2m5mefx02@sneakemail.com> To: FreeBSD Advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 2k uptime ;-) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030806130233.01adf010@threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <20030806122342.P58710@majakka.cksoft.de>
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What impresses me most about this setup is the fact that there hasn't been
a power outage, hardware failure, or clumsy coffee drinker to foil the
whole setup in these five years. Amazing.
Kudos to FreeBSD on its equally impressive stability.
At 06:32 AM 8/6/2003, you wrote:
>Hi guys,
>
>I recently revisited a customers site at which I had setup a FreeBSD
>based lan router some time back. Yep it is still up and running with the
>same ipfw rules I had setup back then. And yes it is still their main
>gateway to the world.
>
> ck@xxxxxxx: {7} uname -a
> FreeBSD xxxxxxx.xxx.de 2.2.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Mon
> Feb 9 18:53:29 CET
> 1998 ck@xxxxxxx.xxx.de:/usr/src/sys/compile/XXXXXXX i386
> ck@xxxxxxx: {8} uptime
> 12:18PM up 2003 days, 16:12, 1 user, load averages: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00
> ck@xxxxxxx: {9}
>
>This just HAD to be posted to advocacy ;-)
>
>The tough part about this is that it would have a about year more uptime if
>it weren't for that kernel rebuild and reboot in 1998 to include drivers for
>their newly installed 100mbit ethernet cards that were not included in the
>original kernel. ;-(
>
>This beats the bsd/os based web server on top of uptime.netcraft.com by
>about 250 days I should say.
>
>http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html
>
>Greetings
>Christian Kratzer
>CK Software GmbH
>
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