From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 6 15:00:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA04031 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 15:00:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA03935 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:59:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id WAA01817; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 22:14:16 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199801062114.WAA01817@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: SFT To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 22:14:15 +0100 (MET) Cc: capriotti@geocities.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199801062116.OAA11031@usr08.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 6, 98 09:16:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Anecdote: During one of the early demos of SFT at Novell, the demo > was to drop an anvil on one machine and have the failover operate > transparently. One time, the anvil dropped, and, since they were > using thinwire at the time, the anvil crushed the ethernet card > and shorted the thinwire. After that, the demo used two cards. 8-). which by no means was a guarantee that the problem could not occur again. Wouldn't have been better to switch to twisted pair instead :) Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________