From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 13 06:24:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA19317 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 06:24:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.Clark.Net (mail.clark.net [168.143.0.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA19309 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 06:24:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clark.net (proberts@clark.net [168.143.0.7]) by mail.Clark.Net (8.7.3/8.6.5) with ESMTP id JAA23097; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:24:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (proberts@localhost) by clark.net (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id JAA01135; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:24:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: clark.net: proberts owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:24:10 -0400 (EDT) From: "Paul D. Robertson" To: Robert Hanson cc: Andrew Stesin , firewalls@GreatCircle.COM, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SYN floods - possible solution? (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Robert Hanson wrote: > im thinking dec alpha with 64 bit OS... > > is there 64 bit FreeBSD coming? Evidently Linus is working on > Linux/Alpha... Linux/Alpha is real now, not "being worked on", and is pretty much merged into the current devel. tree, Sparc/Linux is very close to being officially part of the source tree as well. RedHat sells a Linux distribution for the Alpha on CD, though as of 2.0, any distribution should be find, and you can always FTP it. > > IMHO pentiums are consumer class product (read affordable for most).... my > observations are that other than "basic" affordability pentium stuff isnt > really scalable... every new chip only affords "price" hosabilty cycle all > over again for the mfgs.... It's still I/O speed for the most part, and the AXP systems have PCI buses just like the Pentiums. Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions proberts@clark.net which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." PSB#9280