From owner-freebsd-cluster Fri Aug 18 7:25:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from acl.lanl.gov (acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BCAF37B42C for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:25:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mini.acl.lanl.gov (root@mini.acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.34]) by acl.lanl.gov (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA2304188; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 08:25:37 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (rminnich@localhost) by mini.acl.lanl.gov (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA22876; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 08:25:37 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: mini.acl.lanl.gov: rminnich owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 08:25:37 -0600 (MDT) From: Ronald G Minnich X-Sender: rminnich@mini.acl.lanl.gov To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Cc: "freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Is this list active? In-Reply-To: <20000818104056.A84928@lucifer.bart.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > Just a curious question, I guess a keep alive type of system where a > daemon per host sends out and acks keep alive messages is the easiest > form of high availability, right? not so clear that it is useful, but it will work. We're ripping clusters up here. I.e. we have scraped all the software off, down to and including the BIOS, and are building them from the ground up. Everything we're doing will work fine with freebsd. see http://www.linuxbios.org ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message