Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 May 1998 11:52:34 -0400 (EDT) | From | Donald Becker <> | Subject | Re: oh woe, oh woe, oh woe is me... [2.0.34p16 + 3com] |
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On Wed, 27 May 1998, Serguei Koubouchine wrote:
> > system is actually the problem. I don't know how many times I have sent a > > one-line "Don't use 'gated'" response to angry messages about my drivers. > > Do you have an alternative to gated ? I'd be very happy if you tell us > about one...
The problem was that RedHat 5.0 shipped with a broken 'gated' RPM that was turned on by default. They now have a fixed RPM available.
> Or may be you do want to persuade us that Linux is totally useless as > something more complex than a game machine connected to the Net via the only > interface with a static route ? Or may be we have to forget about OSPF etc. > and give up to Cisco routers with several hundreds static routes installed > into each ? It'd be a real horror for a sysadmin of a moderately big > network...
My point was that I learn about every possible broken configuration and distribution. I thought that I was using an example that everyone knew about. How 'bout this one: "No, 10hine connected to the Net via the only > interface with a static route ? Or may be we have to forget about OSPF etc. > and give up to Cisco routers with several hundreds static routes installed > into each ? It'd be a real horror for a sysadmin of a moderately big > network...
My point was that I learn about every possible broken configuration and distribution. I thought that I was using an example that everyone knew about by now! There are far more obscure problems..
How 'bout the all-time biggest contributer to bogus bug reports: "No, the driver isn't stuck at 10mbps, despite what 'ifconfig' is reporting". Media (speed+duplex) selection is the most difficult part of keeping a driver working with new card versions, so I can't ignore these. But most are simple user errors.
Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences. Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 20771 301-286-0882 http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/people/becker/whoiam.html
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