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Date:      Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:41:00 -0400 (AST)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Do IBM Netfinity Servers Run Freebsd Well?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103301040330.13497-100000@mobile.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <E14j012-0006Rz-00@dc.cis.okstate.edu>

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we run several SMP Netfinity servers, and, except for a bug in 4.2-RELEASE
(since fixed), haven't had a hiccup ...

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Martin McCormick wrote:

> 	The subject is the main question.  I recently posted
> questions about high-end Dell systems that we might use to
> replace a pair of Suns that are 5 years old.  I have since found
> out that we buy IBM Netfinity servers for our enterprise systems.
>
> 	How well do they work with freebsd?  Is there anything we
> need to be especially concerned about?
>
> 	These boxes will be running the ISC bind and dhcp servers
> for our campus which serves about 23,000 IP numbers and counting.
>
> 	The present Sun boxes are 140-MHZ Sparcs with 512 Megs of
> RAM, each.  They are doing fine, but we know that one day, the
> end will come.
>
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Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
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