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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.networking:9635 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip:12679 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:3323 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!nctuccca.edu.tw!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!news.sinica!ywliu From: ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw () Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS? Followup-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 20 Jul 1995 01:26:01 GMT Organization: Computing Center, Academia Sinica Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3ukbb9$7ao@gate.sinica.edu.tw> References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <id.VAPL1.0SA@nmti.com> <3uf3kc$d50@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <3ufi7b$ju6@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Robert Brockway (robert@ec531667.slip.cc.uq.oz.au) wrote: : 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. : Linux is very stable, and almost all users see long uptimes. : I would check for hardware failures if i were you. : Both Linux and FreeBSD are being used successfully as ISP machines : and Anon ftp servers throughout the net. : I'm wondering about your statement about the system being 'somewhat : experimental'. what do you mean? if you mean it uses hardware with drivers : in alpha develpment then that is likely the problem :-) : -Robert As for FreeBSD, we all know it works pretty amazingly on ftp.cdrom.com. Check for hardware failure ? Geee, I don't know. A Boca 16port serial card. I have no way to find out how it can be wrong. Probably a hardware failure. But, IMHO, PPPD and kernel panic (we got a lot of PPPD panic; this may be the probelm of PPPD or kernel) may very well a software issue. What do you think ? I have my own FTP server story about Linux 0.99plxx. See my other post. "Experinental" means we are still evaluating the stability and support of different Unices as our future platform. What happened to me was : now matter what other people say how stable Linux it is, I never got my luck. So, should I believe what I saw and got , or other users' words ? (No flame, no critism. Only a joke. 8-) I have no choice. -- Yen-Wei Liu Internet e-mail address:ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw ywliu@gate.sinica.edu.tw FAX: +886-2-783-6444