Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 19:43:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Alex Perel <alexp@caesar.iplink.net> To: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> Cc: "Dag-Erling C. =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, "James D. Butt" <jbutt@mwci.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.981004193933.25799A-100000@caesar.iplink.net> In-Reply-To: <3617E550.7D385B55@pipeline.ch>
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On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Alex Perel wrote: > > > > On 4 Oct 1998, Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= wrote: > > > > > "James D. Butt" <jbutt@mwci.net> writes: > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/column_T2_1.htm > > > > > > Yuck. Who are these Weak & Wanker people anyway? This is so > > > warm-n-fuzzy-feel-good I might just puke. > > > > What really bugs the hell out of me is Microsoft's attitude that > > they invented load balancing solutions using a single IP. I think someone > > has to wake them up to the realities of NAT, and products such as Cisco's > > LocalDirector (which btw can do the job96237589235x better than any NT > > server ever could). > > Sigle IP? It looks like they have failed... nothing new... > > Non-authoritative answer: > Name: www.microsoft.com > Addresses: 207.46.130.149, 207.46.130.150, 207.46.131.13, 207.46.131.15 > 207.46.131.16, 207.46.131.135, 207.46.131.137, > 207.46.130.14, > 207.46.130.15 207.46.130.138, 207.46.130.139 Well that is a Single IP with a captial S, as in SUCKERS. Somehow I am not surprised that NT could not handle the intricacies of load balancing. I guess they had to put their claim that 'they could revert to the old system within an hour' to the text. I bet it took them a day too :) > > Oh and speaking of 100% availability, none of my machines get > > unscheduled downtime.. hmmm.. I wonder why Microsoft's do. > > They run bugs... haha... Microsoft Cockroach NT Server 4.0: Guaranteed to survive a nuclear war. Now available with load balancing. Just PLEASE keep the RAID cans away... Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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