[rescue] OpenBSD 4.2 for SPARC64
Phil Stracchino
phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Sat Nov 3 16:35:31 CDT 2007
Ron Wickersham wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
>
>>>> OpenBSD 4.2 media came a week ago and it installed great on two systems
>>> so far. for now have it running on a mail server Netra T1125 and a router>
>> (with two QFE cards) Netra T1120. will try it later on an ultra 1, but
>>> don't have the time right now.
>> I'm thinking today might be a good day to upgrade mine, I've had the media for
>> a few weeks now, but been too lazy to try it out. :S
>> Is it a vast improvement on 4.1 performance wise for your Netras?
>
> no comparison, was running 3.7 on a sparcstation 5 for mail and 3.9 on a
> sparcstation 20 for router, so changed hardware as well as the new release
> of OpenBSD. next is upgrading another mail machine from a sparcstation 2
> to a Netra, and that should make a big difference, as it has about 100
> users. what i'm most impressed on mail is spamd, (the spamd which is
> OpenBSD greylisting and not the spamd helper for spamassassin).
It's about time I updated yama (my firewall, an Ultra5), which is still
running OpenBSD 3.6.
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