From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 30 8:31:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sherline.com (sherline.net [216.120.87.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35B0937B71C for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:31:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgowdy@home.com) Received: (qmail 59036 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2001 16:31:09 -0000 Received: from server.sherline.net (HELO server2) (216.120.87.3) by sherline.net with SMTP; 30 Mar 2001 16:31:09 -0000 Message-ID: <001901c0b936$d3e5a8f0$035778d8@sherline.net> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: , "Martin McCormick" References: Subject: Re: Do IBM Netfinity Servers Run Freebsd Well? Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:31:09 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The subject is the main question. I recently posted > questions about high-end Dell systems that we might use to > replace a pair of Suns that are 5 years old. I have since found > out that we buy IBM Netfinity servers for our enterprise systems. > > How well do they work with freebsd? Is there anything we > need to be especially concerned about? > > These boxes will be running the ISC bind and dhcp servers > for our campus which serves about 23,000 IP numbers and counting. > I run two Netfinity's, one 3500 SMP (Dual PIII 500) and one 3000 (PIII 450). Both run perfectly. There was an old issue with 4.2's SMP, but it's long since fixed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message