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Re: Hardware for Internet providers



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.

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