[36562] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Tue Apr 10 19:38:57 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'Christopher A. Woodfield'" <rekoil@electro.semihuman.com>,
"Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
Cc: Aaron Dewell <acd@woods.net>, Patrick Evans <pre@pre.org>,
nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:21:13 -0700
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> From: Christopher A. Woodfield [mailto:rekoil@electro.semihuman.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 2:15 PM
> Oh, and when you can
>
> (a) have Linux shut down a failing interface card on the fly and keep
> humming along,
>
> and
>
> (b) be able to replace said card without shutting down,
>
> lemme know.
IMHO, you are being short-sighted. Linux doesn't just run on PC boxen. That
was my point earlier about the S/390. You assume too much. BTW, let's see
you do the same thing with Sun gear, even Netras. How about hot-swapping a
blade in a Cisco Catalyst 6509(not sure, here. I usually shut 'em down to do
that.)? BTW, if you can find the hot-swap gear you want to run then I can
probably get Linux to run on it (it just takes a while). Linux runs
everywhere from Pal Pilots to S/390s (has any one seen it on a Sun e10K
yet?)
In this day and age, such absolute statements are a little hazardous. Their
shelf-life, even if true, is measured in micro-secs.
--
The only absolute is that there are no absolutes.
