From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Apr 18 11:01:44 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA12997 for doc-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 11:01:44 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA12988 ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 11:01:30 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA12873; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 10:58:35 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199504181758.KAA12873@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: this could sort of be of interest to us, too.. To: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 10:58:35 -0700 (PDT) Cc: core@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199504180952.CAA13030@violet.berkeley.edu> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 18, 95 02:52:02 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2388 Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce > Path: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!hookup!remus.wat.hookup.net!metrics.com!tomh > From: Paul A Vixie > Subject: WEB: BSD/OS hardware information archive > Approved: tomh@metrics.com > Message-ID: > Sender: tomh@metrics.com (Tom Haapanen) > Organization: Software Metrics Inc. > Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 01:41:37 GMT > Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc > Lines: 24 > > > I am often asked to recommend a high performance machine for BSD/OS. Uses > for this kind of beast include: > > * A timeshare system for a bunch of X Terminals (or PCs or Macs). > * An NFS file server (data will come out of it at Ethernet speed). > * An Internet information server (dns, http, ftp, gopher, veronica). > * An Internet data processor (nntp, smtp, uucp). > * An Internet terminal server (slip, ppp, bbs). > * An Internet gateway and possibly firewall (bgp4, rip{,2}, hello). > * An X workstation (maybe with a multi-screen display). > * A mix of the above if you can only afford one big host. > > This text assumes the use of BSD/OS 2.0, and some of the hardware I > recommend does not work on other systems or on early versions of BSD/OS. > Caveat emptor. > > The information is available on the Web at the following URL: > > http://www.vix.com/pc-hw/bsd-os-hwconfig.html I have read Paul's web pages, and it has some good information but it is extremly (not just slightly) BSD/OS centric. He is still staying away from PCI as the only supported PCI board they have is the bt946 :-(. He recomends 3COM ethernet cards since that is there best driver, while ours is defanitly the if_de driver for PCI cards or the if_ed for ISA cards. I would clone his pages and make them ``Accurate Automation'' pages, but that would be serious copyright infringement :-(. If my business contiunues to grow at it's current rate it will be feasible for me to increase my internet bandwidth and start a www server here that would be ``FreeBSD'' centric. PS: Am I get over commercial on the mailling lists? I have been a little worried about some of my postings about what it is that I do and grabbing every person I see looking to buy hardware. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD