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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news.serv.net!not-for-mail From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Date: 5 May 1996 02:25:40 -0700 Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4mhs6k$do5@itchy.serv.net> References: <4lfm8j$kn3@nuscc.nus.sg> <4md40m$3ov@skipper.netrail.net> <4mdr72$m7j@samba.rahul.net> <4mh90t$mct@skipper.netrail.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net In article <4mh90t$mct@skipper.netrail.net>, Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net> wrote: >We are only doing a few megs a sec right now, and we are running FreeBSD >2.1.0 with the latest and greatest gated. We did need to make a few >changes so it could peer with the RS at MAE-East. The box is vary stable, >and they stay up for a few months and we then reboot them for some reason >or other. If we are doing debugging and it crashes it needs to be reset, >but we now use serial ports for console and can reboot them from home. If >we are not running the debug kernel it will just reboot on it's own if it >crashes. I"m kind of throwing around this idea for a second peer. (Either that or a cisco 7010...(ouch).) The fact that it crashes -ever- is somewhat distressing. Has anyone built a FreeBSD box with -no- disk?, like burned a prom or something? I'd rather it came up as quickly as possible if it is in fact going to crash. -- Sean T. Lamont, President / CEO, Abstract Software (ServNet) - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson