Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 22:14:15 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: capriotti@geocities.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SFT Message-ID: <199801062114.WAA01817@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199801062116.OAA11031@usr08.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 6, 98 09:16:31 pm
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> Anecdote: During one of the early demos of SFT at Novell, the demo > was to drop an anvil on one machine and have the failover operate > transparently. One time, the anvil dropped, and, since they were > using thinwire at the time, the anvil crushed the ethernet card > and shorted the thinwire. After that, the demo used two cards. 8-). which by no means was a guarantee that the problem could not occur again. Wouldn't have been better to switch to twisted pair instead :) Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________
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