From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 27 1:44:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A69537B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 01:44:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from codeblau.de (codeblau.walledcity.de [212.84.209.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69ED343EA9 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 01:44:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stephan-freebsd-stable@eckner.org) Received: (qmail 16954 invoked by uid 103); 27 Nov 2002 09:43:59 -0000 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:43:59 +0100 From: Stephan Eckner To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM's X335 series Message-ID: <20021127094359.GA16777@knuth.codeblau.de> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <005901c2954c$0d229ae0$490d3a91@nosinetmrtn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <005901c2954c$0d229ae0$490d3a91@nosinetmrtn> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:02:17PM +0100, Maarten de Vries wrote: > Hi, > > We're planning on purchasing a bunch of IBM X335 servers, equipped with 4 P4 > CPU's en 4Gb of memory. These should run either Apache plus Tomcat|Orion or > Mysql|Postgresql. > Since we're looking into using FreeBSD instead of RedHat on these systems, > I'd be grateful if you could provide me with some firsthand experiences. > > - how well does FreeBSD install on IBM's X335 or X300 series in general? <--snip--> We are currently deloying several x305, x335 and x345 both under Linux (SuSE 8.0) and FreeBSD (Stable, a few weeks ago). While the Linux Systems work flawlessly, we sometimes have problems with the two on-board Broadcom BCM5703 1000Base-T Ethernet Cards under FreeBSD (sometimes autonegotiation with our Netgear-Switches fails). Has anybody experienced similar Problems with the BCM5703-chip? Stephan -- Stephan Eckner http://www.eckner.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message