I've been using PPPoE for over 2 years now (with PacBell) and never had an unfixable problem with it. Solaris, Linux or Windos. IMHO PPPoE is nothing different for DHCP for consumers.
Compare those results with what was there a year ago.
I had ALi Magic1 board for almoust a year and I'm quite happy with it (I run Linux 24/7 on it). I recently bought VIA266A board for another computer. Good stability, more features (on-board NIC, 6-channel sound, AGPpro, on-board IDE RAID), perfomance gains still look marginal to me though.
1) Don't run it if you don't use it.
2) If you use it and implemented it the way it's supposed to be implemented (listen only to trusted hosts) - upgrade with the next roll-out.
3) If you use it but don't know what you are using - get a clue, so that you fall in 2). Every lister on your box can fail you, be prepared, you have none to blame but yourself.
Greate news!
My cards run fine with OpenWindows but more support is always better.
I run Solaris 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8 on x86.
People are asking for reasons to run Solaris X86 so here's my oppinion:
1. Solaris X86 is a bit slower but more robust then Linux and there not that
many features that distinguish Linux from Solaris. Robust VM, mature IP stack,
ufs logging (read journaling), solid software RAID.
2. Solaris X86 is less common which makes it arguable more "secure" in a sense
that there are much less exploits for Solaris X86 floating around. New
exploits don't come out with Solaris X86 code and this eliminates at least 90%
of the people coming after your box.
3. All GUI things that I need work on Solaris X86. Enlightenment, Gnome,
Mozilla, DDD, etc. In fact my Linux and Solaris desktop setups are
indistinguishable.
4. Daily experience with Solaris does help managing big SPARC servers.
5. Solaris X86 works as a Solaris development system. In most cases you just need to
recompile your code developed on X86 to run on SPARC.
It is quite easy to beat MySQL when it comes to features, though most of the small busnesses will most likely love it.
Sendmail is better then Exchange but can you say Postfix or Exim? Sendmail is no joke to configure and in the end you still get poor performance and potential security problems. Postfix has solid secure design, easy configuration and rocking performance.
Pop3d is what? WUimap, qmail, qpopper, courier?
If you don't mind spending time configuring software the best solution IMHO is Cyrus.
Also check out Communigate Pro if you are looking for a cheap easy email solution.
Sounds way over the roof.
500 locations and 8000 servers, that's about 16 servers in each. That doesn't look right. What I have been hearing is that Akamai has 3 servers in cluster. Here is how live Akamai cluster looks like.
Also on Content Delivery Networks conference July 6-7, 2000
Barcelona, Spain in the study "The Measured Performance of Content Distribution Networks" it was shown that to achieve optimal performace you don't need even a 1000 servers, much less number will do the same job.
So what those "8000" servers are for?
I don't believe you didn't have trouble installing Solaris 8.
I run dual boot Solaris 8 too.
Here is how much time it took me to install it.
1. About 1 hour to do initial install.
2. About 3 hours to install MU3 and latest custom patches.
3. About 1 hour removing things that I don't need, like Chinies locales and WUftpd and configuring things like inetd.
4. About 1 hour downloading and installing gcc, autoconfig, make, flex, bison, and other build tools.
5. About 1 hour to build pppd-2.3.11 and pppoe to get my DSL running.
6. About 1 hour building openssl and openssh.
7. About 1 hour configuring sendmail building and installing IMAP and mutt.
8. About 3 hours installing Gnome, fonts and co.
Total 12 hours in my count.
Btw. UFS junk in compare with Ext2.
I can poweroff my RedHat system and there will not be any fs corruption.
I wish I could say that about Solaris.
UFS BREAKS every time it was not unmounted correctly so I have to run UFS with logging which makes it just increadibly slow even in compare with Ext3.
Solaris is MUCH MUCH MUCH harder then Linux if you know what you are doing.
What is wrong with Winmodems?
A build from
http://walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/
works with latest kernels and runs OK on my Tecra 8100 (It still sucks because of crappy video, but well...)
Slashdot Mirror
Check it for yourself if you have it.
You still need WineX to announce that you have DX8 support. After that if you are NVidia user WC3 picks up OpenGL as a renderer.
The will be problems authenticating with BattleNet but hopefully next WineX release will be able to deal with them.
So many very good things happen to Linux kernel! I am impressed.
I found it extreamely helpful in tracing memory leaks.
It's GPL, it is mature, it is multi-platform.
Very feature reach and can be easly integrated in your existing projects with includes and automake macros.
I've been using PPPoE for over 2 years now (with PacBell) and never had an unfixable problem with it. Solaris, Linux or Windos.
IMHO PPPoE is nothing different for DHCP for consumers.
Compare those results with what was there a year ago.
I had ALi Magic1 board for almoust a year and I'm quite happy with it (I run Linux 24/7 on it). I recently bought VIA266A board for another computer. Good stability, more features (on-board NIC, 6-channel sound, AGPpro, on-board IDE RAID), perfomance gains still look marginal to me though.
For the next Quizno's "Unfair match-up"
1) Don't run it if you don't use it.
2) If you use it and implemented it the way it's supposed to be implemented (listen only to trusted hosts) - upgrade with the next roll-out.
3) If you use it but don't know what you are using - get a clue, so that you fall in 2). Every lister on your box can fail you, be prepared, you have none to blame but yourself.
This is why they saved only 25%.
If they were switching from MicroSoft the savings would be in hundreds.
Greate news!
My cards run fine with OpenWindows but more support is always better.
I run Solaris 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8 on x86.
People are asking for reasons to run Solaris X86 so here's my oppinion:
1. Solaris X86 is a bit slower but more robust then Linux and there not that
many features that distinguish Linux from Solaris. Robust VM, mature IP stack,
ufs logging (read journaling), solid software RAID.
2. Solaris X86 is less common which makes it arguable more "secure" in a sense
that there are much less exploits for Solaris X86 floating around. New
exploits don't come out with Solaris X86 code and this eliminates at least 90%
of the people coming after your box.
3. All GUI things that I need work on Solaris X86. Enlightenment, Gnome,
Mozilla, DDD, etc. In fact my Linux and Solaris desktop setups are
indistinguishable.
4. Daily experience with Solaris does help managing big SPARC servers.
5. Solaris X86 works as a Solaris development system. In most cases you just need to
recompile your code developed on X86 to run on SPARC.
It is quite easy to beat MySQL when it comes to features, though most of the small busnesses will most likely love it.
Sendmail is better then Exchange but can you say Postfix or Exim? Sendmail is no joke to configure and in the end you still get poor performance and potential security problems. Postfix has solid secure design, easy configuration and rocking performance.
Pop3d is what? WUimap, qmail, qpopper, courier?
If you don't mind spending time configuring software the best solution IMHO is Cyrus.
Also check out Communigate Pro if you are looking for a cheap easy email solution.
Sounds way over the roof.
500 locations and 8000 servers, that's about 16 servers in each. That doesn't look right. What I have been hearing is that Akamai has 3 servers in cluster.
Here is how live Akamai cluster looks like.
Also on Content Delivery Networks conference July 6-7, 2000 Barcelona, Spain in the study "The Measured Performance of Content Distribution Networks" it was shown that to achieve optimal performace you don't need even a 1000 servers, much less number will do the same job.
So what those "8000" servers are for?
I don't believe you didn't have trouble installing Solaris 8.
I run dual boot Solaris 8 too.
Here is how much time it took me to install it.
1. About 1 hour to do initial install.
2. About 3 hours to install MU3 and latest custom patches.
3. About 1 hour removing things that I don't need, like Chinies locales and WUftpd and configuring things like inetd.
4. About 1 hour downloading and installing gcc, autoconfig, make, flex, bison, and other build tools.
5. About 1 hour to build pppd-2.3.11 and pppoe to get my DSL running.
6. About 1 hour building openssl and openssh.
7. About 1 hour configuring sendmail building and installing IMAP and mutt.
8. About 3 hours installing Gnome, fonts and co.
Total 12 hours in my count.
Btw. UFS junk in compare with Ext2.
I can poweroff my RedHat system and there will not be any fs corruption.
I wish I could say that about Solaris.
UFS BREAKS every time it was not unmounted correctly so I have to run UFS with logging which makes it just increadibly slow even in compare with Ext3.
Solaris is MUCH MUCH MUCH harder then Linux if you know what you are doing.
What is wrong with Winmodems? ...)
A build from
http://walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/
works with latest kernels and runs OK on my Tecra 8100 (It still sucks because of crappy video, but well