I was looking for any experience running Linux (or FreeBSD) NIS
and NFS servers with Tru64 clients. Original question is below.
Thanks to Ryan McConigley, James Sainsbury, Uwe Lienig,
Kevin Fleming, Kurt Ludwig (twice), Steven Timm, Arrigo Triulzi,
sysadmin_at_astro.su.se and Richard Sharpe (of Samba and Ethereal fame).
It seems like a few other admins (especially in the education sector)
are in the same boat with alphas and Tru64 now beyond their budgets.
Opinions on NFS were divided. Some thought NFS performance would be
fine especially with kernels later than 2.2.19 which support NFS v3.
Others thought the performance wouldn't be adequate with a network of
any size (order of 30+ clients in our case).
The majority opinion is that NIS will work fine especially as in
our case all the servers will be the same OS (currently all Tru64
but after the changeover all Linux).
Quite a few recommended FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD. One problem
is that hardware and software support for those OSes is not as good
as for Linux. All the major vendors now certify and support Linux
(or at least RH).
One other recommendation (from Kurt):
you may also want to go with a server from BSDi. They actually
support their servers and it is certified w/ BSD.
http://www.bsdi.com
I'm currently experimenting with a couple of linux boxes running
the 2.4.3 kernel. I might also test one of the *BSD flavours
(probably OpenBSD).
Ian
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Disclaimer: Speaking only for myself.
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Original question:
Almost since the first alphas hit the streets we've run our major
services on Alpha under OSF1/Digital Unix/Tru64 Unix. (We've still
got a couple of DEC 3000s running).
Now thanks to tight education budgets and the struggling $AU it looks
like we'll be moving to Linux on Intel (cringe).
I'm not worried about squid, apache, sendmail, BIND, DHCP, .... They
should all run fine under Linux.
I am wondering about NIS and NFS. Currently our NIS and NFS servers
are running Tru64 4.0F and this works well with Linux and Tru64 clients.
Is anyone running this the other way round - with NIS and NFS servers
under Linux and Tru64 clients? What's the NFS performance like?
Should I be looking at FreeBSD instead of Linux?
Received on Fri Apr 20 2001 - 03:41:36 NZST