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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.advocacy:9765 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:2501 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nexus.coast.net!news.kei.com!travelers.mail.cornell.edu!news.tc.cornell.edu!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!ctc.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!jjs From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD Date: 21 Jun 1995 18:19:07 GMT Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3s9nqr$28a@galaxy.ucr.edu> References: <3qfhhv$7uc@titania.pps.pgh.pa.us> <3s71aa$83o@galaxy.ucr.edu> <3s85sg$p3n@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <3s8i13$60s@canyon.sr.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dostoevsky.ucr.edu In article <3s8i13$60s@canyon.sr.hp.com>, Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> wrote: > It is a big deal if you have a lot of systems -- we had to kill >rwhod years ago. Doing an appropriate grep/sed of our /etc/hosts file >shows WELL OVER 2000 (yes, 2000) IP addresses for Unix systems assigned >to this single geographical site alone (and these are just Unix systems >... if I were to count the PCs attached to the same LAN ...). Even if >you assume that only 3/4s of these are really being actively used, >that's still a lot of workstations. If rwhod were to be run, we >probably wouldn't be able to get any work done. Are you saying you had 2000+ machines on a subnet? How? Why? Sounds like an improper network design - rwhod would be the least of your worries! If your network is broken up into manageable segments, though, rwhod should not be a problem as it only broadcasts on the local subnet. -- Joe Sloan jjs@engr.ucr.edu http://dostoevsky.ucr.edu Linux95 - Real Power NOW! "What do you want to wait for today?" Redistribution of this message via the Microsoft Network is prohibited