[tech] Re: [ucc] Sun FastEthernet question

[David Manchester]

> On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 02:14:09PM +0800, Angus Stewart wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> > I have a Sun here with a Sun FastEthernet card installed. For some stupid
> [...]
> 
> OBTW - if anyone sees one of these for sale at a reasonable price,
> tell us. mola could really do with one, otherwise I think its days as
> our main NFS server are numbered.
> 
> A couple such cards have been spied in the past, but they definitely
> weren't cheap and the opportunity passed. We're still on the lookout.

Of course there's always automount and interface round-robining.
You tell the client a filesystem could come from any of a list
of addresses. It gets it from whichever answers first.

Failing that, Solaris x86 would be a good go...

Of course the current state of the machine room can't be helping network
performance. *shrug*

Cheers
/dave
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