[29277] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Laptops as servers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Legate)
Thu Jun 15 15:56:54 2000
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:55:08 -0700
From: Jason Legate <jlegate@alienchick.com>
To: Derrick <Derrick@anei.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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I spoke with someone who helped design the t1's, and he said that the t1
100 is -48VDC, and that it "supposedly can be done with car batteries,
but I wouldn't know how".
-j
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 01:54:05AM -0400, Derrick wrote:
>
> I know it's not a laptop but,
>
> We recently started looking at some of the new Sun Netra T1's they are fast,
> 1u high, come in 110AC or 12 (maybe 24 I forget offhand) volts DC. They are
> real workhorses and perform great for the size and all. If you configure it
> with low memory (sun gets a lot of cash for their memory) they are pretty
> cost effective. I know that valinux has some small 2u boxes but don't know
> if they have any dc versions.
>
> Derrick
>
> I don't work for sun. In fact I would like to see a generic version of these
> I could run BSD on.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> > Jerry Scharf
> > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 1:08 AM
> > To: Bennett Todd
> > Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> > Subject: Re: Laptops as servers?
> >
> >
> >
> > One thing I know to watch for is periodic battery replacement. It
> > turns out
> > that running a laptop with a battery in it with AC on all the
> > time will slowly
> > erode the life of the battery. I have no way to know how long you
> > can do this
> > before the batteries won't do what you were expected. Maybe a battery
> > replacement every couple years is all it takes.
> >
> > The other is that the I/O on laptops sucks compared to PCI. For
> > things that
> > aren't major traffic handlers (like your DNS and DHCP examples)
> > this is not a
> > hit. Do any of the O/Ss out there get full rate out of a 100bT PC card?
> >
> > jerry
> >
> >
> >
>
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