From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 3 13:50:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA28636 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 13:50:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from subcellar.mwci.net (subcellar.mwci.net [205.254.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA28608 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 13:50:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbutt@mwci.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by subcellar.mwci.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA04128; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 15:48:03 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 15:48:02 -0500 (CDT) From: "James D. Butt" Reply-To: "James D. Butt" To: Mike Smith cc: Frank Pawlak , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement In-Reply-To: <199810031940.MAA07325@word.smith.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/column_T2_1.htm > > > > I hit the URL and got nothing. Are you sure that it is correct? Would > > be interested in reading tha artticle. > > It's correct; the article describes a fairly boring load balancing > scheme. Try http://www.coyotepoint.com/ for an alternative. I think that you missed the point that I am not sure I made.. They were talking about crashes and downtime.. Under a controlled enviroment they are not able to keep their own servers running.. I have no problem doing as much up time as I want we have had BSD based boxes with well over a year of uptime. This is the OS developer they should be able to make their servers not crash if they expect customers to do it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- James D. Butt 'J.D.' Network Engineer Voice 319-557-8463 Network Operations Center Fax 319-557-9771 MidWest Communications, Inc. Pager 319-557-6347 241 Main St. noc@mwci.net Dubuque, IA 52001 jbutt@mwci.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drive defensively. Buy a tank. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message