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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.networking:9642 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip:12683 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:3326 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!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 01:19:12 GMT Organization: Computing Center, Academia Sinica Lines: 38 Message-ID: <3ukaug$7ao@gate.sinica.edu.tw> References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <id.VAPL1.0SA@nmti.com> <3uf3kc$d50@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <3ufn1r$74m@locus.halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Ralph Sims (ralphs@locus.halcyon.com) 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. : This is almost a neverendingthread, under various subject lines. I : have been running Linux since 0.94 (I think--it's been a while). The : 0.99 kernel with the original networking code was placed on a 386/25 : with 8 megs of RAM and stayed up for a year. I am now at 1.3.10 on I agree with you totally; this will be a neverending thread. No flame, no argument, I just plainly state what happened to me. 2 years ago we set up a Linux 0.99pl5x(or a big patch nuber) as an ftp server on a 486/33 with 16MB RAM, a 3c503 ethernet card. The day it was set up, there was about a dozen of users ftpping together - the Linux box died instantly. Rebooting never revived it too long. So we abandoned Linux. I used to suspect the hardware problem, but never got any conclusion. Now my company (an ISP) exploits a Linux 1.2.5 with a Boca 16port card, the PPPD (or kernel ? though message shows it's PPPD's fault) crashes all the time. My conclusion ? We get what we pay. If everything goes right, it's alright. When it goes wrong, I have no way to get my support and only try to wade through the hope of new patch/new version of PPPD and kernel. Maybe we just got no luck. -- Yen-Wei Liu Internet e-mail address:ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw ywliu@gate.sinica.edu.tw FAX: +886-2-783-6444