Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 07:31:22 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew Perry <andrew@python.shoal.net.au> To: FreeBSD-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd.org vs vex.net Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970309071913.5401A-100000@python.shoal.net.au> In-Reply-To: <19970308111858.51095@klemm.gtn.com>
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On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, Andreas Klemm wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 1997 at 03:12:55PM -0500, Charles Henrich wrote: > > The more I think about this, the more Im starting to feel we really should have > > a freebsd.org team. RSA is sponsering 12 contests, that will probably go over > > an entire year. How many people would be willing to move to a freebsd.org > > team? I'm very seriously considering switching my machines over.. > > If there are people willed paying my phone costs ;-)) > I think for one hour in the night I'd do it on a daily basis > with one or two machines ;-) > what i do is connect at 6pm and 6am, run the client 8 times, wait until they download the keyspace mask, and then disconnect (after going through the mail as well :) ) After about 12 hours they've all finished and are waiting for me to connect them back up so they can get the next one. seems to be working ok, only thing is now I can't work out a relevant speed (keys/sec) anymore :) When I add all eight up it comes to about the same figure I got when I was running one at a time but I don't think it's exactly accurate because they don't all start and finish at the same time as I get a lot of timeouts waiting for zero.genx.net, which is another reason i'm doing it this way, around these times in the day (australian daylight savings time) I don't have much problem getting through but later on during the night it waits for hours to connect. does anyone know approximately how long this challenge is going to take? Andrew Perry andrew@shoal.net.au > -- > andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH > Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de > pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< > ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<< >
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