From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Oct 4 14:15:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29288 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 14:15:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from opi.flirtbox.ch ([62.48.0.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA29259 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 14:15:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oppermann@pipeline.ch) Received: (qmail 26299 invoked from network); 4 Oct 1998 21:15:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pipeline.ch) (195.134.140.1) by opi.flirtbox.ch with SMTP; 4 Oct 1998 21:15:42 -0000 Message-ID: <3617E550.7D385B55@pipeline.ch> Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 23:14:56 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann Organization: Internet Business Solutions Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Perel CC: "Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav" , "James D. Butt" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alex Perel wrote: > > On 4 Oct 1998, Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= wrote: > > > "James D. Butt" writes: > > > http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/column_T2_1.htm > > > > Yuck. Who are these Weak & Wanker people anyway? This is so > > warm-n-fuzzy-feel-good I might just puke. > > What really bugs the hell out of me is Microsoft's attitude that > they invented load balancing solutions using a single IP. I think someone > has to wake them up to the realities of NAT, and products such as Cisco's > LocalDirector (which btw can do the job96237589235x better than any NT > server ever could). Sigle IP? It looks like they have failed... nothing new... % nslookup www.microsoft.com Server: barbarella.pipeline.ch Address: 195.134.128.59 Non-authoritative answer: Name: www.microsoft.com Addresses: 207.46.130.149, 207.46.130.150, 207.46.131.13, 207.46.131.15 207.46.131.16, 207.46.131.135, 207.46.131.137, 207.46.130.14, 207.46.130.15 207.46.130.138, 207.46.130.139 > Oh and speaking of 100% availability, none of my machines get > unscheduled downtime.. hmmm.. I wonder why Microsoft's do. They run bugs... haha... -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message