Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:43:59 +0100 From: Stephan Eckner <stephan-freebsd-stable@eckner.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM's X335 series Message-ID: <20021127094359.GA16777@knuth.codeblau.de> In-Reply-To: <005901c2954c$0d229ae0$490d3a91@nosinetmrtn> References: <005901c2954c$0d229ae0$490d3a91@nosinetmrtn>
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On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:02:17PM +0100, Maarten de Vries wrote: > Hi, > > We're planning on purchasing a bunch of IBM X335 servers, equipped with 4 P4 > CPU's en 4Gb of memory. These should run either Apache plus Tomcat|Orion or > Mysql|Postgresql. > Since we're looking into using FreeBSD instead of RedHat on these systems, > I'd be grateful if you could provide me with some firsthand experiences. > > - how well does FreeBSD install on IBM's X335 or X300 series in general? <--snip--> We are currently deloying several x305, x335 and x345 both under Linux (SuSE 8.0) and FreeBSD (Stable, a few weeks ago). While the Linux Systems work flawlessly, we sometimes have problems with the two on-board Broadcom BCM5703 1000Base-T Ethernet Cards under FreeBSD (sometimes autonegotiation with our Netgear-Switches fails). Has anybody experienced similar Problems with the BCM5703-chip? Stephan -- Stephan Eckner http://www.eckner.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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