Re: 2.6? 2.7? 2.8?

[Rémi Guyomarch <rguyom_(_at_)_pobox_(_dot_)_com>]

On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 04:22:48PM -0700, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
> I may want, in December, to plunk a VPN down on two sides of an
> Internet connection.
> For maximum reliability, should I do it with 2.6 + patches? 2.7 +
> patches? 2.8?

2.7-stable is, well, stable for me. Didn't tried 2.8 yet but I don't
see why it should be less stable than 2.7.

> The main reason I ask is that from the 1/2-attention I have been
> paying to misc and tech I have this perception that in a very
> general sense 2.7 was never as stable at the kernel level as 2.6 has
> been. I seem to remember a lot of "I'm running a firewall and it
> crashes" kinda posts over the past six months. Am I wrong on this,
> please?

IMHO, yes, you're wrong. I don't remember a lot of crash reports in
misc or tech about 2.7.
Myself, I never seen a crash on 2.7-stable. I have two 2.7 boxes on
two physically separated networks, routing, firewalling, nating and
running an ipsec tunnel between them for months now.

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Rémi