Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:27:14 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, Tom Embt <tom@embt.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT reliability (was: Microsoft service packs... (was many other threads...)) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991119131850.26074C-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <19991119135747.53682@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
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On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > I was witness to an amusing incident here recently. The guy in the > next cube runs NT for some obscure reasons, and suddenly he couldn't > access some network service. After several attempts, we discovered > that the Ethernet connection was no longer functional. I discovered > that there is some kind of log file in the system, but nobody was able > to determine the cause. > > It doesn't seem to be possible to stop and start interfaces on NT; > instead, you reboot. Not what I would expect of any good OS, let > alone a "server" OS (whatever that means). So we rebooted. No go. > Changed the Ethernet board. No go. Changed the cable. No go. Put > all the old stuff back and booted PicoBSD. Go. > > OK, we thought, it's NT's fault. Reboot NT. Go. I had the same sort of thing happen to me when I first installed FreeBSD on this box (some POS of compaq). The fxp0 interface wouldn't work, unless I first booted NT. It was a bug, and had already been fixed between the -RELEASE I was installing and -STABLE. Something about PCI bus mastering, but I don't remember the details. FreeBSD was also not capable of using the CD-ROM drive on the box. Had this been my first FreeBSD esperience, I would have been very annoyed. No network, no CD= very hard to install! David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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