From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 29 12:58:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lerami.lerctr.org (lerami.lerctr.org [207.158.72.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D270B37C101 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:58:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from lerdesk (ler-desk.iadfw.net [206.66.13.18]) by lerami.lerctr.org (8.10.1/8.10.1/20000616) with SMTP id e5TJw5j05831; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:58:05 -0500 (CDT) From: "Larry Rosenman" To: "Doug Barton" , "Andy" Cc: Subject: RE: FreeBSD 3.5 now available . . . . . Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:58:04 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We have found in our ISP environment that the 4.x IP stack is MUCH more stable for heavy network stuff. As Doug says, if you haven't reported a bug, you can't expect it to be fixed. Larry Rosenman -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Doug Barton Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 2:48 PM To: Andy Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.5 now available . . . . . On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Andy wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > I don't know what you're talking about "merging into future 4.x builds". > > 4.x is already much more stable than 3.x ever was..the bug-fixing has > > already taken place during the development of the 4.0 branch. > > Not to start a massive flamewar here, but in my personal > experience with multiple FreeBSD boxes in a live environment, I've found > that 3.x is much more stable than the 4.x servers. I've gone so far as to > revert the 4.x server back to 3.x. I'm going to revisit the issue when it > becomes 4.1. It's a pretty safe bet that your problems won't have been fixed if you didn't tell anyone about them. Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message