From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 19 11:29:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC6515641 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:28:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA83682; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:27:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:27:14 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: Greg Lehey Cc: Jonathon McKitrick , Tom Embt , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT reliability (was: Microsoft service packs... (was many other threads...)) In-Reply-To: <19991119135747.53682@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> 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 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