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From: dth@cistron.nl (Danny ter Haar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Date: 20 Jul 1995 00:35:26 +0200
Organization: Cistron Internet Services - the Netherlands
Lines: 57
Message-ID: <3uk1be$b8u@picard.cistron.nl>
References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <id.VAPL1.0SA@nmti.com> <3uf3kc$d50@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
NNTP-Posting-Host: picard.cistron.nl

ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw () wrote:
>Our company (an ISP) set up a (somewhat experimental) Linux 1.2.5 box as a 
>6-line PPP server - it crashes about every two days, the uptime is seldom
>longer than 1 week. Like a time bomb. We are planning to move to FreeBSD.
>And if FreeBSD is still not stable enough, we will eventually move to BSD/OS.
>
We are also an ISP using Linux very happily.
Although a major setup was required to act as a terminal server
(P/C/S/Uusername for PPP/(C)/Slip/UUCP connections)
it is running extremely well.

Actual output:

procinfo:
-----------
Linux version 1.2.11 (miquels@Q.cistron.nl) (gcc version 2.6.3) #1 [cs-1.alphen.cistron.nl]

Memory:        Total        Used        Free      Shared     Buffers
Mem:            7056        6928         128        4664        2596
Swap:           8244         276        7968

Bootup: Mon Jul 10 08:46:51 1995    Load average: 0.07 0.02 0.00 1/28

user  :       0:11:21.33   0.1%	    page in :    17120	  disk 1:   510901
nice  :       0:00:00.00   0.0%	    page out:   522532	
system:       1:17:08.69   0.6%	    swap in :    68749	
idle  :   9d 14:17:28.90  99.4%	    swap out:      246	
uptime:   9d 15:45:58.90	    context :  5787922

irq  0:  83435893 timer                 irq  8:         0                      
irq  1:         8 keyboard              irq  9:         0                      
irq  2:         0 cascade+ [4]          irq 10: 118887530  cyclades            
irq  3:  66253314 serial+               irq 11:         0                      
irq  4:    568253 serial+               irq 12:         0                      
irq  5:         0                       irq 13:         1 math error           
irq  6:         0                       irq 14:   1631266 ide0+                
irq  7:         0                       irq 15:  10988469 ne2000               


Hacked fingerd:
-----------------
  cs-1.alphen.cistron.nl running Cistron LoginServer 0.1 (Linux 1.2.11)

 12:33am  up 9 days, 15:46,  6 users,  load average: 0.17, 0.04, 0.01

Login           Name       What  Idle TTY   Host      When   Where
miquels  Miquel van Smoore       0:18 p0  cs-1.alp Thu 00:08 Q                  
labyrint Wouter Labruyere  PPP   0:08 44  cs-1.alp Thu 00:25 port13.alphen.cistr
tvg      Ted van Gaalen    PPP   0:28 35  cs-1.alp Thu 00:05 port04.alphen.cistr
johnp    John Prins        SLIP  1:25 34  cs-1.alp Wed 23:07 port03.alphen.cistr
tborn    Ton van der Born  PPP   1:29 33  cs-1.alp Wed 23:03 port02.alphen.cistr
dee      Sander Dee        PPP   0:27 41  cs-1.alp Thu 00:05 port10.alphen.cistr
-- 
dth@cistron.nl       | I don't care who you are, you are not
Danny ter Haar       | walking on the water while I'm fishing  
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