From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 5 09:27:18 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A8D7177 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2012 09:27:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from mail.ultra-secure.de (mail.ultra-secure.de [78.47.114.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D0E58FC17 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2012 09:27:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 64465 invoked by uid 89); 5 Nov 2012 09:27:09 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 64460, pid: 64462, t: 0.0530s scanners: attach: 1.4.0 clamav: 0.97.3/m:54/d:15536 Received: from unknown (HELO suse3) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@212.71.117.1) by mail.ultra-secure.de with ESMTPA; 5 Nov 2012 09:27:09 -0000 Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 10:27:09 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner To: Rick Miller Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1 stability/robustness? Message-ID: <20121105102709.6fb64c54@suse3> In-Reply-To: References: <201211020214.UAA29489@lariat.net> <20121102091021.23cf9af0@suse3> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Brett Glass , stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:27:18 -0000 Am Sat, 3 Nov 2012 21:56:45 -0400 schrieb Rick Miller : > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Rainer Duffner > wrote: > > Am Thu, 1 Nov 2012 20:14:51 -0600 (MDT) > > schrieb Brett Glass : > > > >> I need to build up a few servers and routers, and am wondering how > >> FreeBSD 9.1 is shaping up. Will it be likely to be more stable and > >> robust than 9.0-RELEASE? Are there issues that will have to wait > >> until 9.2-RELEASE to be fixed? Opinions welcome. > > > > > > If I'm not mistaken, the bge-stuff that makes the default NICs ins > > HP G8 servers (360+380) actually run will not make it back into 9.1. > > Intel cards work much better anyway... > > I have a blog post at > http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/06/14/freebsd-on-hp-proliant-dl360p-g8-servers/ > which touches on this. I heard as recently as today that the fixes > for the BCM5719 and 5720 were recently committed to -CURRENT. It's > too late for them to be rolled into 9.1. Not sure if they'll be > committed to to stable/8 or not, but if so they could make it into > 8.4-R. How did you PXE-boot the box, BTW? I ask, because I see no option during booting-up the DL380G8 to pxe-boot from the NC365T igb(4) NICs.... http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02607548&lang=en&cc=us&taskId=135&prodSeriesId=4189874&prodTypeId=329290 Rainer