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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router
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References: <4lfm8j$kn3@nuscc.nus.sg> <4md40m$3ov@skipper.netrail.net> <4mdr72$m7j@samba.rahul.net> <4mh90t$mct@skipper.netrail.net> <4mhs6k$do5@itchy.serv.net>
Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 12:51:25 GMT

Sean T. Lamont (zeno@serv.net) wrote:
: 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.

Ciscos can (and do) crash too.

: 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.

It would be interesting to see if someone could do this with a PCMCIA
flash card.  :-)

Chris
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