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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.new-york.net!ritz.mordor.com!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Lines: 27 Organization: Mordor International Message-ID: <Dqxnpp.86w@ritz.mordor.com> References: <4lfm8j$kn3@nuscc.nus.sg> <4md40m$3ov@skipper.netrail.net> <4mdr72$m7j@samba.rahul.net> <4mh90t$mct@skipper.netrail.net> <4mhs6k$do5@itchy.serv.net> Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 12:51:25 GMT Sean T. Lamont (zeno@serv.net) wrote: : In article <4mh90t$mct@skipper.netrail.net>, : Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net> wrote: : : >We are only doing a few megs a sec right now, and we are running FreeBSD : >2.1.0 with the latest and greatest gated. We did need to make a few : >changes so it could peer with the RS at MAE-East. The box is vary stable, : >and they stay up for a few months and we then reboot them for some reason : >or other. If we are doing debugging and it crashes it needs to be reset, : >but we now use serial ports for console and can reboot them from home. If : >we are not running the debug kernel it will just reboot on it's own if it : >crashes. : : : : I"m kind of throwing around this idea for a second peer. (Either that or a cisco : 7010...(ouch).) The fact that it crashes -ever- is somewhat distressing. Ciscos can (and do) crash too. : Has anyone built a FreeBSD box with -no- disk?, like burned a prom or something? : I'd rather it came up as quickly as possible if it is in fact going to crash. It would be interesting to see if someone could do this with a PCMCIA flash card. :-) Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451