Our NT machine was crap. We had to reboot about every week. In fact, I eventually wrote a batch file that would reboot the server every morning at 4am. We upgraded (well, a fresh install) to Win2k and the longest that machine was running was 4 months (129 days). All it handles is file sharing and a small, seldom used SQL server. When it crashed, it crashed hard. We had to do quite a bit of work to get it back up and it still isn't the same. The hardware is any spare parts we had laying around.
2 weeks ago, I installed a Linux machine to act as our firewall using IPTABLES. So far, no reboots since the inital install. Man is it fast. That doubled our bandwidth compared to running through MS's ISA firewall software. Of course, it was logging everything that went through it... Barry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 9:19 AM Subject: Re: [expert] I made it -- 1 year uptime > WHOOO-HOOO!! > > Ta make ya feel even better, I support an NT4 server, religiously apply > service packs and updates; this is a low traffic server, in an > air-conditioned room with power conditioning and UPS, on fully NT > approved hardware. The LONGEST I have gone without being forced to a > hard reset is 2 months. Performance is usually suffering badly long > before that. <snip> > still better than winblows.. > > Ken
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