I ran an Ultra-5 for 2 years straight as my home firewall. It got replaced with an hppa just because I could :-) My mailserver is still an ultra-5 that has run for 3 years. The only time it has been down is when my ups gave out. Sparc + OpenBSD = bliss
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:58:45PM -0700, Joe S wrote: > >There's no way for anyone to know without describing your throughput. > > My apologies. I forgot to include that information. This is stricly a > home network. I am not concerned about the throughtput between my > network and the internet, but rather between local networks. I'll post > my iperf results later. > > >P.S. Not to rant, but I've never understood why people ask these > >questions on the list. Why not just setup a test network and run iperf > >against it? > I'm doing that now. I wanted to find out what others' experiences were > and if this was a bad idea to start with.