From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 10:08:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4128037B401 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:08:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imf24aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf24aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 584EA43FBD for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:08:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from 2m5mefx02@sneakemail.com) Received: from vwinxp.sneakemail.com ([68.155.193.9]) by imf24aec.mail.bellsouth.netESMTP <20030806170759.JPHK19510.imf24aec.mail.bellsouth.net@vwinxp.sneakemail.com> for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:07:59 -0400 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20030806130233.01adf010@threespace.com> X-Sender: tech@threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 13:06:35 -0400 To: FreeBSD Advocacy From: Chip Morton <2m5mefx02@sneakemail.com> In-Reply-To: <20030806122342.P58710@majakka.cksoft.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: 2k uptime ;-) X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 17:08:03 -0000 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 > >-- >CK Software GmbH >Christian Kratzer, Schwarzwaldstr. 31, 71131 Jettingen >Email: ck@cksoft.de >Phone: +49 7452 889-135 Open Software Solutions, Network Security >Fax: +49 7452 889-136 FreeBSD spoken here! >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"