From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 12 00:18:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A645E106564A for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 00:18:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from coco@executive-computing.de) Received: from mail.moehre.org (mail.moehre.org [195.96.32.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6167F8FC08 for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 00:18:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from coco@executive-computing.de) Received: from localhost (unknown [195.96.32.7]) by mail.moehre.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 870D14D444A; Tue, 12 May 2009 02:00:43 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -3.461 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.461 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, AWL=0.938, BAYES_00=-2.599] autolearn=ham Received: from mail.moehre.org ([195.96.32.7]) by localhost (mail.moehre.org [195.96.32.7]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Hm41+m3F3p3I; Tue, 12 May 2009 02:00:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.100.30] (p54B0F458.dip.t-dialin.net [84.176.244.88]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: coco@executive-computing.de) by mail.moehre.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7CDD4D4446; Tue, 12 May 2009 02:00:40 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A08BC22.8050900@executive-computing.de> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 02:00:34 +0200 From: Marco Steinbach User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: john@day-light.com References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq Proliant 1600 X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 00:18:45 -0000 John Brooks schrieb: > I seem to have inherited a pair of Compaq Proliant 1600 > servers and am considering loading freebsd onto them. > > Has anyone worked with Proliants before and specifically > with installing freebsd on them? Is it worth the bother? We're running some DL380 G1 Models for various internal, low profile purposes. They're equipped with dual PIII 1GHz CPUs and about 1GB of RAM. We're booting off of the Compaq Integrated RAID Controler, and use gmirrored off the shelve SATA drives in the free bays with FreeBSD 6.3. Allthough I have no knowledge about the models you mention, a good start might be to get Compaq Rompaq media in order to bring up the firmware to the latest level. The next step would be to fetch Compaq SmartStart media, and see, what options these offer for your machines. I had one DL380 G1 rebooting randomly on any FreeBSD 6.x I tried, but the other ones are just humming along nicely on 6.3 with some jails running mostly what might be called a standard FAMP. I'm running hpasm 7.22 [1] on all of them. MfG CoCo [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/