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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:01:50 +0100
From:      Uwe Laverenz <uwe.laverenz@difi.de>
To:        b.j.smith@ieee.org, thebs@theseus.com
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Looking to use FreeBSD as an NFS/App server for 10 Solaris clients  ...
Message-ID:  <38D764AE.301F55D6@difi.de>
References:  <38D74C1E.23B7C806@ieee.org>

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Hi Bryan,

> Looking to use FreeBSD as an NFS/App server for 10 Solaris clients

I use FreeBSD for nearly everything and I'm not very familiar with
Solaris(yet), but since all your NFS-Clients are running Solaris, I
wouldn't recommend using FreeBSD as your NFS-Server. Sun is actually
giving the new Solaris 8 for Intel/Sparc away almost for free (just the
cost for the media, $75 I think).

So in your case I'd rather setup an Intel box running Solaris 8,
although it hurts to say that...

>   II.  Cost aimpoint is only $1,000 due to budget
>        (2)Cel466+256MB+(2)30GB-7200+Tulip will meet that
>        Comments on SMP, RAM size, IDE, Tulip?

Have a look at http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/hcl/index.html for
hardware compatibility with Solaris.


>  III.  Software RAID-0 for speed?  Installer, tools ...

You'd need the Solstice Disk Suite to create software RAIDs on Solaris
(similar to vinum on FreeBSD). I think the Disk Suite is shipped with
Solaris 8. I'm not yet absolutey sure about this, I'm still waiting for
my Solaris 8 media kit...


> FreeBSD rocks!!!
Yep. :-)

Uwe


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