On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Yamagi Burmeister wrote:
Very large and famous (due to very attractive prices) hosting
provider Hetzner.de discards FreeBSD support on dedicated servers,
because these servers can niot negotiate 100Mbit/DUPLEX when
switches' ports are limited to 100Mbit (1Gbit connection costs
additional money) only under FreeBSD. Linux works fine.
Switches known to be Juniper e3k series.
...
I've got several Hetzner EQ4 and on all these machines FreeBSD 8.1 runs
just fine. I've never seen this strange negotiation problem myself. But
maybe I was just lucky and got working mainboard and nic combinations.
So if further information is needed, I'm happy to provide it.
A lot of us do. There is a problem with the re(4) setup as well in
that if you do not send packets out yourself the port takes a very
long time to come up and unblocked. I haven't discussed that with
them or tested with an updated HEAD (since end of October).
But yes, I am running HEAD on an EQ4 as well. If you have problems
and a personal email contact at Hetzner feel free to talk to me.
I am "local" (a couple of 100km away in the same country) and a FreeBSD
committer and I can probably figure things out with them or properly
proxy requests.
/bz
--
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