From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 2 19:16:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F923415 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 19:16:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from mail.ultra-secure.de (mail.ultra-secure.de [78.47.114.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F1898FC15 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 19:16:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 86804 invoked by uid 89); 2 Nov 2012 19:16:06 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 86799, pid: 86801, t: 0.1054s scanners: attach: 1.4.0 clamav: 0.97.3/m:54/d:15533 Received: from unknown (HELO linux-wb36.example.org) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@217.71.83.52) by mail.ultra-secure.de with ESMTPA; 2 Nov 2012 19:16:06 -0000 Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 20:15:54 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner To: Mark Saad Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1 stability/robustness? Message-ID: <20121102201554.6048f2e0@linux-wb36.example.org> In-Reply-To: References: <201211020214.UAA29489@lariat.net> <20121102091021.23cf9af0@suse3> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.7; i586-suse-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:16:09 -0000 Am Fri, 2 Nov 2012 13:34:20 -0400 schrieb Mark Saad : > > > > On Nov 2, 2012, at 4:10 AM, Rainer Duffner > wrote: > > > Am Thu, 1 Nov 2012 20:14:51 -0600 (MDT) > > schrieb Brett Glass : > > > >> 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.