Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 20:15:54 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1 stability/robustness? Message-ID: <20121102201554.6048f2e0@linux-wb36.example.org> In-Reply-To: <D30C5C70-971B-4979-94FC-5F113FADA3DE@longcount.org> References: <201211020214.UAA29489@lariat.net> <20121102091021.23cf9af0@suse3> <D30C5C70-971B-4979-94FC-5F113FADA3DE@longcount.org>
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Am Fri, 2 Nov 2012 13:34:20 -0400 schrieb Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org>: > > > > On Nov 2, 2012, at 4:10 AM, Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> > wrote: > > > Am Thu, 1 Nov 2012 20:14:51 -0600 (MDT) > > schrieb Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>: > > > >> I need to build up a few servers and routers, and am wondering how > >> FreeBSD 9.1 is shaping up. Will it be likely to be more stable and > >> robust than 9.0-RELEASE? Are there issues that will have to wait > >> until 9.2-RELEASE to be fixed? Opinions welcome. > > > > > > If I'm not mistaken, the bge-stuff that makes the default NICs ins > > HP G8 servers (360+380) actually run will not make it back into 9.1. > > Intel cards work much better anyway... > > > Did you swap out the bge nic daughter card in the g8 servers for an > intel one or , do you mean in general the intel nic support is > better ? Both, actually. At least, Intel has drivers for FreeBSD on their website and IIRC, it's a Tier 1 OS for them. I don't want to dis the efforts of the people working on the bXe stuff, but from what I have read, they have much less support from the vendor. We have used HP servers even back when they were still Compaq-servers (and came with Intel NICs...) and this is really the first time we had to install Intel NICs with them (with FreeBSD - there was an earlier issue with Solaris, but that does not count...). Are there Intel daughter cards for this server? I thought, all the daugher-cards came with some sort of Broadcom chipset.
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