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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

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