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From: robert@ec531667.slip.cc.uq.oz.au (Robert Brockway)
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: 18 Jul 1995 05:52:43 GMT
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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
--Robert Brockway, email: ec531667@student.uq.edu.au
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