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[Phil Reese <>]

Stanford's NDT has been up for nearly two years and it is starting to 
show some age.  Its a dual PIII system running on a single 9gig SCSI 
drive. It is using the Stanford flavor of RedHat modified with web100 
extensions and other than updating the NDT app a time or two, not much 
has changed on the system.

Over time, the server wedges itself more and more often.  Not sure why, 
but the whole system is frozen.  The only choice is to hit the reset 
switch.  Initially, this didn't happen very often and the reset worked 
well.  Of late, the fsck is taking longer and longer to count to 100%.

As I thought about rebuilding the system I've looked at the updated 
Web100 tools and Userland routines, and their nice offering of 
pre-patched kernels.  Rich has a number of new NDT offerings but most of 
the advertised sites seem to be still on the older 5.2.x.

Since this is a dedicated server, only running NDT and iperf, and I'd 
expect others have dedicated servers too, I began to wonder if there 
might be a small, but interested market, for a live CD version of all 
the web100 and NDT tools, with the caveat that it can be loaded onto the 
systems hard drive.

Do any readers of the list have suggestions for a distribution that has 
worked well for them, suggested NDT version to run, or any comments on 
the live CD idea?

Phil Reese
Stanford U