[33060] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: small device with IP address
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Fri Dec 22 09:22:42 2000
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:19:00 -0500
From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
To: jlewis@lewis.org
Cc: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>,
Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20001222091858.G19587@goose.automagic.org>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012212341320.893-100000@redhat1.mmaero.com>; from jlewis@lewis.org on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:43:15PM -0500
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On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:43:15PM -0500, jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
>
> Not very small, and has a hard drive...thus not very reliable, and prone
> to all sorts of nasty issues when it loses power unexpectedly.
>
I understand why it doesn't fit the immediate requirements, but I am
feeling a sudden urge to speak up in defence of SPARC lunchboxes :)
I have a SPARC classic in a very remote and cramped colo which is
dropped and powered off semi-regularly. The temperature in the colo
exceeds 40C during the southern summer. The machine exchanges about
5000 mail messages per day which, although not a huge load, is enough
to keep the disk heads moving.
And I've never lost a single bit of data :)
Joe
