And here's the manual translation, since someone mentioned babblefish is down:
Database problem! We are very sorry, but at the moment our server is struggling to keep up with the amount of requests. Thanks for the attention. We hope you will visit the site later.
It seems a little biased/uninformed to mention only the Packeteer product here, so I'll broaden the horizon a little: A solution that is comparably priced (Still very expensive) and IMHO is a better choice is the Allot Netenforcer. There is also P-Cube and F5, but independent tests (and my own) makes the Allot-box the better bet. If you think Packeteer is easy to use, you should check them out yourself!
Sure, you can pass arguments to NT before nooting. You just append them to the ARC string in boot.ini. The only one that I remember is the "noserialmice" parameter, that is useful when an UPS is connected to the serial port. I believe there is a few more parameters that can be put in there.
Yes, SCSI is really much different. I realize that the benchmarks speaks against my opinion, but I must agree with the author of the article. My home setup has been running with a 60GXP IBM ATA harddrive the last couple of months, one of the faster ATA drives these days, on an 815 chipset, one of the better ATA controllers onboard. My conclusion is that the system FEELS slow, subjective impression, compared to my 4 years old Quantum Atlas II SCSI drive. Everything in the specs of the systems tells me it can't be true, but there often is big differences between calculated theory and the practical impression. My conclusion: If someone has the money to use SCSI, I would encourage that. Of course there is the reliability issue too, my 5 year old SCSI drive never had a bad sector, the 1 year old ATA drive has been RMA'd once already, go figure?
Well, something doesn't really add up here, maybe a typo? your NetWare network runs LINUX on the servers? Then at best it should be called a mars_nwe network? Am I the only one wondering about this comment? There should be at least one Novell box on this net!
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And here's the manual translation, since someone mentioned babblefish is down:
Database problem! We are very sorry, but at the moment our server is struggling to keep up with the amount of requests. Thanks for the attention. We hope you will visit the site later.
It seems a little biased/uninformed to mention only the Packeteer product here, so I'll broaden the horizon a little: A solution that is comparably priced (Still very expensive) and IMHO is a better choice is the Allot Netenforcer. There is also P-Cube and F5, but independent tests (and my own) makes the Allot-box the better bet. If you think Packeteer is easy to use, you should check them out yourself!
Just wanted to add that this is not embsd.org's board, it's developed by a guy called Soeren Kristensen. I don't really think you will be able to make NAS with something that essentially is a 133 MHz 486, you should definately not count on being able to saturate all 3 10/100 interfaces at once. When running BSD on this board, the kernel stats shows about 90% interrupt time with 2 nics running about 20 megabits of traffic to it. Nice little board for firewalls, though.
Sure, you can pass arguments to NT before nooting. You just append them to the ARC string in boot.ini. The only one that I remember is the "noserialmice" parameter, that is useful when an UPS is connected to the serial port. I believe there is a few more parameters that can be put in there.
Yes, SCSI is really much different. I realize that the benchmarks speaks against my opinion, but I must agree with the author of the article. My home setup has been running with a 60GXP IBM ATA harddrive the last couple of months, one of the faster ATA drives these days, on an 815 chipset, one of the better ATA controllers onboard. My conclusion is that the system FEELS slow, subjective impression, compared to my 4 years old Quantum Atlas II SCSI drive. Everything in the specs of the systems tells me it can't be true, but there often is big differences between calculated theory and the practical impression. My conclusion: If someone has the money to use SCSI, I would encourage that. Of course there is the reliability issue too, my 5 year old SCSI drive never had a bad sector, the 1 year old ATA drive has been RMA'd once already, go figure?
Well, something doesn't really add up here, maybe a typo? your NetWare network runs LINUX on the servers? Then at best it should be called a mars_nwe network? Am I the only one wondering about this comment? There should be at least one Novell box on this net!