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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Mervyn Ah-Young <merv@planet.net.au>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.2
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On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Mervyn Ah-Young wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> My name is Mervyn Ah-Young and I am from TABCorp Holdings.
Is this the T.A.B.?

> 
> We run a mission critical gaming network with over 12,000
> gaming machines.
neatoh.
> 
> Machines are polled using devices called RPS's (P.Cs with
> Multi I/O Cards based on Motorola 68000).
> 
> These RPS's are currently running a DOS based polling application
> and we are planning to move to FreeBSD 2.2.2 in the near future.
> 
> Questions:
> 
> What type of redundancy facility does FreeBSD offer?  We are looking
> at having two Fast Ethernet cards in each RPS.  If one LANCard
> fails, does FreeBSD have the ability to automatically re-route
> packets to the secondary backup LANCard transparently?
I've rarely seen a failed ethernet NIC.
100Mb? c'mon, do you have THAT much data?
FreeBSD can certainly be programmed to do this, but there are 
other isssues.. what if the power supply fails?
cable break?
hub failure?

> 
> Does FreeBSD have built in SNMP MIB support?
It's an add-on. there are two
the PD on n the ported software collection, and one from SNMP-research,
which is Not free. (but seems to work a bit better).
> 
> To what level is ATM supported under FreeBSD?
not standard, but there is some support in the academic world.

> 
> I would appreciate any information you could give me on this O/S.
> 
> Thank you and I hope to hear from you soon!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mervyn Young.
> AUSTRALIA
WHERE in OZ?

>