On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 06:55:17PM +1000, David wrote:
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> On Wed, 5 May 2004, VK2COT wrote:
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> > Hello,
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> > One of the customers wants to run Linux Enterprise
> > Server 3 with several modems attached to it.
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> > I welcome and thank you for any comments in advance.
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> It's a dumb requirement. There's no such thing as a machine that never
> breaks. If they want it signed in blood, you had better find out
> whose blood it's going to be. If it's yours, then drop out quick.
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> If it's THAT critical, I would be more worried about hard drives, power
> supplies, UPS, phone lines, rats, cockroaches, human operators and
> terrorists than I would be about linux. For the record, the netcom that
> cooked did so after somebody stacked another modem on top of it. Modem
> sandwich :-)Or on the silly side, why not get a cyclades PC400, which is a 30modem pci card that handles ISDN primary or basic (different models). The cards are built for linux in mind. A > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >
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