[154285] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [c-nsp] NTP Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Medcalf)
Sat Jun 30 18:16:36 2012
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:15:53 -0600
In-Reply-To: <001a01cd5156$29082790$7b1876b0$@gmail.com>
From: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> those. The beauty of most appliances is that they're easy to manage. If=
it
> fails, download the latest ISO from company, burn it, boot appliance,
> restore it and you're back in business in an hour or so. Keep in mind a
> linux kernel running just ntpd and some management necessities like ssh a=
nd
> http is pretty reliable. Hardly any I/O, just a simple function it does.
http is a frilly pink bauble, not a management necessity.
Very basic linux with no frilly bauble's, ntpd, sshd, and vi.
Supports thousands of clients on a $10 80286 with 640KB RAM booting from a =
floppy.
Add $1000 and you can get the same thing as an "appliance".
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