Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:18:11 -0600 From: Damian Wiest <dwiest@vailsys.com> To: Peter Thoenen <eol1@yahoo.com> Cc: DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com>, Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sun Fire x2100 Message-ID: <20070123001811.GA22569@dfwdamian.vail> In-Reply-To: <470134.51008.qm@web51902.mail.yahoo.com> References: <459D2195.5040504@pixelhammer.com> <470134.51008.qm@web51902.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:27:15PM -0800, Peter Thoenen wrote: > --- DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com> wrote: > > Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Sun Fire X2100? Any caveats I should > > know > > about? > > I don't recommend them if you plan to use as a file server. They have > an issue with randomly rebooting under a large network load with > thousands of open connections. Have seen this on my system and have > have had a dozen or so folk email me with the identical problem. > > -Peter I've had the same problem, but with x86 systems (specifically an IBM xSeries system and a home-built AMD64 system) running FreeBSD 6.0 (IIRC). These systems were on a home cable modem connection and there were pretty regular break-in attempts. When reviewing logs, I'd see attempts to brute-force logins and passwords for the ftp and ssh services. I eventually had to turn ftpd off since it seemed guaranteed to panic the box during one of these cracking attempts. sshd seemed to handle things better, but I have had one panic occur. I haven't tried 6.2 to see if I encounter similar problems. -Damian
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