From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Oct 4 15:53:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA13206 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 15:53:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iplink.net (iplink.net [192.139.81.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13191 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 15:53:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alexp@iplink.net) Received: from alexp@localhost by caesar.iplink.net id <26941-6657>; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 19:43:09 -0400 Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 19:43:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Alex Perel To: Andre Oppermann cc: "Dag-Erling C. =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=" , "James D. Butt" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement In-Reply-To: <3617E550.7D385B55@pipeline.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Andre Oppermann wrote: > 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... > > 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 Well that is a Single IP with a captial S, as in SUCKERS. Somehow I am not surprised that NT could not handle the intricacies of load balancing. I guess they had to put their claim that 'they could revert to the old system within an hour' to the text. I bet it took them a day too :) > > Oh and speaking of 100% availability, none of my machines get > > unscheduled downtime.. hmmm.. I wonder why Microsoft's do. > > They run bugs... haha... Microsoft Cockroach NT Server 4.0: Guaranteed to survive a nuclear war. Now available with load balancing. Just PLEASE keep the RAID cans away... Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message