Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:41:00 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Do IBM Netfinity Servers Run Freebsd Well? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103301040330.13497-100000@mobile.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <E14j012-0006Rz-00@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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we run several SMP Netfinity servers, and, except for a bug in 4.2-RELEASE
(since fixed), haven't had a hiccup ...
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Martin McCormick wrote:
> The subject is the main question. I recently posted
> questions about high-end Dell systems that we might use to
> replace a pair of Suns that are 5 years old. I have since found
> out that we buy IBM Netfinity servers for our enterprise systems.
>
> How well do they work with freebsd? Is there anything we
> need to be especially concerned about?
>
> These boxes will be running the ISC bind and dhcp servers
> for our campus which serves about 23,000 IP numbers and counting.
>
> The present Sun boxes are 140-MHZ Sparcs with 512 Megs of
> RAM, each. They are doing fine, but we know that one day, the
> end will come.
>
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