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Re: Hardware for Internet providers
>> My impresion is that linux is not too stable for useing as IP main
>> machine. It networking is unstable (and I use it for the last 3 years).
>> ppp tend to hung after 2~3 days of regular use, It lost it routing table,
>> it has memory leaks while useing gated|routed.
>> I would go on BSDI.
>
>I cannot comment on this, never having used gated or routed. My own home
>machine held an open PPP connection (which was active most of the time)
>for two days and a major part of a third before being switched off. No
>problems were detected. While this is not a benchmark and no effort was
>made to measure performance, sustained ftp remained at around 1.2kB/sec
>for the better part two days.
>
Hi;
I use it from home - 64Kb over frame relay - the pppd hang without any
messges, and has to be retarted.
The gated grows to ~20MB after 2 days while it routing table does not
grow. I had to use dirty trick on it. It could be a problem in the kernel
or in the libs - since it works fine on other os - but this is not an
excuse i can use for a customer.
I do not complain about the prefromnce - got 5.3KB/s on ftp.
And one more thing: betwwen minor relase to minor realse you have to replace
some of the critical applications while others stop working, and you can't
always tell which one.
Ron Cohen, Tel-Aviv University Computation Center
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