2k uptime ;-)

[Chip Morton]

What impresses me most about this setup is the fact that there hasn't been 
a power outage, hardware failure, or clumsy coffee drinker to foil the 
whole setup in these five years.  Amazing.

Kudos to FreeBSD on its equally impressive stability.



At 06:32 AM 8/6/2003, you wrote:
>Hi guys,
>
>I recently revisited a customers site at which I had setup a FreeBSD
>based lan router some time back.  Yep it is still up and running with the
>same ipfw rules I had setup back then.  And yes it is still their main
>gateway to the world.
>
>   ck at xxxxxxx: {7} uname -a
>   FreeBSD xxxxxxx.xxx.de 2.2.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Mon 
> Feb  9 18:53:29 CET 
> 1998     ck at xxxxxxx.xxx.de:/usr/src/sys/compile/XXXXXXX  i386
>   ck at xxxxxxx: {8} uptime
>   12:18PM  up 2003 days, 16:12, 1 user, load averages: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00
>   ck at xxxxxxx: {9}
>
>This just HAD to be posted to advocacy ;-)
>
>The tough part about this is that it would have a about year more uptime if
>it weren't for that kernel rebuild and reboot in 1998 to include drivers for
>their newly installed 100mbit ethernet cards that were not included in the
>original kernel. ;-(
>
>This beats the bsd/os based web server on top of uptime.netcraft.com by
>about 250 days I should say.
>
>http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html
>
>Greetings
>Christian Kratzer
>CK Software GmbH
>
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