Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-07 Thread Maxim Konovalov
Hi Scott, [...] > I wanted to follow up on this briefly. I jumped the gun a little > bit in talking about this publicly, since the Openconnect website > wasn't fully globally online at the time. It is now, so anyone who > previously had trouble getting to it should try again at > https://signup.

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-07 Thread Scott Long
On Jun 5, 2012, at 6:16 PM, Scott Long wrote: > > Yes, we are indeed using FreeBSD at Netflix! For those who are interested, I > recently moved from Yahoo to Netflix to help support FreeBSD for them, and > I'm definitely impressed with what is going on there. Other than a few small > changes, w

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-07 Thread Scott Long
On Jun 7, 2012, at 3:09 AM, Daniel Kalchev wrote: > > > On 06.06.12 03:16, Scott Long wrote: > > [...] >> Each disk has its own UFS+J filesystem, except for >> the SSDs that are mirrored together with gmirror. The SSDs hold the OS image >> and cache some of the busiest content. The other dis

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-07 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 06.06.12 03:16, Scott Long wrote: [...] Each disk has its own UFS+J filesystem, except for the SSDs that are mirrored together with gmirror. The SSDs hold the OS image and cache some of the busiest content. The other disks hold nothing but the audio and video files for our content streams

RE: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-06 Thread Andresen, Jason R.
From: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ian Smith > >On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > > > I didn't see a link to this information in the e-mail below. I found > > > this info > > > detailed here: > > > > > > > > > https://signup.netfl

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > > I didn't see a link to this information in the e-mail below. I found this > > info > > detailed here: > > > > > > https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/software > > If you come from an IP range outside of netflix' footprint, that > page is

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-05 Thread Scott Long
On Jun 5, 2012, at 6:42 PM, David Magda wrote: > On Jun 5, 2012, at 20:16, Scott Long wrote: > >> If you have any questions, let me know or follow the information links on the >> OpenConnect web site. > > Out of curiosity, given that Linux seems popular in so many other places > (Google, Faceb

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-05 Thread Dan Daley
Maybe their knowledge of Linux drove them to use FreeBSD. Sorry, couldn't resist ;) On 06/05/2012 19:42, David Magda wrote: On Jun 5, 2012, at 20:16, Scott Long wrote: If you have any questions, let me know or follow the information links on the OpenConnect web site. Out of curiosity, giv

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-05 Thread David Magda
On Jun 5, 2012, at 20:16, Scott Long wrote: > If you have any questions, let me know or follow the information links on the > OpenConnect web site. Out of curiosity, given that Linux seems popular in so many other places (Google, Facebook), is there any particular reason why FreeBSD was chosen f

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-05 Thread Scott Long
On Jun 5, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Benjamin Francom wrote: > I just saw this, and thought I'd share: > > Open Connect Appliance Software > > Netflix delivers streaming content using a combination of intelligent > clients, a central control system, and a network of Open Connect appliances. > > When de

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-05 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > I didn't see a link to this information in the e-mail below. I found this > info > detailed here: > > > https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/software If you come from an IP range outside of netflix' footprint, that page is not available. But have a look at that PDF, comes from thei

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-05 Thread Dan Daley
I didn't see a link to this information in the e-mail below. I found this info detailed here: https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/software From: Benjamin Francom To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, June 5, 2012 11:00:01 AM Subject: Netflix's New