From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 18 13:57:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 651DF14C58 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 13:57:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-66.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.66] (may be forged)) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA32586; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 15:56:17 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37923F71.B2FC87ED@airnet.net> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 15:56:17 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karl Pielorz Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? References: <3791F4D2.2000C88A@tdx.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Karl Pielorz wrote: > I'm reluctant to take it down to upgrade (if it ain't broke [for what you do] > don't fix it?) I can't keep mine up! I use Win98 on my machine occasionally. Be very careful about which xterm or vty you type "shutdown" in! :-) I only upgrade: 1. When a new release comes out. 2. After a full backup. 3. Any machine except my "LAN master". Because of my "unique" situation, my domain, etc. doesn't exist outside of my LAN. Well, the LAN master is the machine with all the DNS info for the LAN and two copies of named - one for internet connectivity, and one for without. It also carries the firewall, dial-on-demand, etc. It's very nasty to try and debug a program when none of the other machines know who they are or who they are talking to! Even worse is the instant lack of connectivity. -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message