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Re: Hardware for Internet providers



Hi

We are working with Linux OS in 8 machines of the Faculty of Natural
Science, in the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Each Linux
machine is a router, and run gated. We have run them since April
1995, and we haven't got problems (it was very stable).

Regards

. They are working Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Rony Cohen wrote:
> 
> > >From the usenix winter '96 paper on Unixes on Pentium:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> The paper also notes that the version of the Linux kernel used for this 
> test was 1.2.8 - a fairly old kernel by today's standards and without 
> many important patches now current. However, the results _are_ indicative.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> ---MAV               (finger for PGP signature block)
> Marc A. Volovic (marc@leonardo.ls.huji.ac.il)
>                  Linguists do it cunningly
> 
> 


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