[IMGate] Re: need sugestions for new Imgate box
Actually I'm still waiting for it. something got messed up in the finance department and it delayed the process. On top of that, we try to use Purchase orders as often as possible and since this is our first order from them, they have to set us up as a customer. Meaning all credit info and company info and stuff and the banks talking and all other stuff that I don't get involved with. So I'm still waiting for it. I think it's been almost a month now. I don't need it right away so I told them to take their time. - Original Message - From: Terry Fritts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IMGate@mgw2.MEIway.com Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 11:28 AM Subject: [IMGate] Re: need sugestions for new Imgate box Hi Kenzo, How did this pan out for you? I'm considering putting together 2 IMGATES using a couple of their boxes. Did you get the servers and are you happy with them? Also, what was your final hardware spec that you ended up with? Just curious... Hi Len - is there any issues with going to FreeBSD 5.2 or the newest 5.3?? Thx. -jason Friday, December 3, 2004, 3:00:12 PM, you wrote: K I have decided to go with eracks. (http://eracks.com/) They give K the option to custom build the systems and test the hardware with K the OS of your choice. This is good because then I won't have to K worry about hardwares not working.
[IMGate] Re: need sugestions for new Imgate box
Hi Kenzo, How did this pan out for you? I'm considering putting together 2 IMGATES using a couple of their boxes. Did you get the servers and are you happy with them? Also, what was your final hardware spec that you ended up with? Just curious... Hi Len - is there any issues with going to FreeBSD 5.2 or the newest 5.3?? Thx. -jason Friday, December 3, 2004, 3:00:12 PM, you wrote: K I have decided to go with eracks. (http://eracks.com/) They give K the option to custom build the systems and test the hardware with K the OS of your choice. This is good because then I won't have to K worry about hardwares not working.
[IMGate] Re: need sugestions for new Imgate box
Hi Len - is there any issues with going to FreeBSD 5.2 or the newest 5.3?? if postfix runs on fbsd 5.3 (or any OS), then IMGate config will run. I'm staying with 4.10 for now for all my IMGate clients. From IMGate POV, it really doesn't matter, so it's your choice. Len
[IMGate] Re: need sugestions for new Imgate box
Hi Len - is there any issues with going to FreeBSD 5.2 or the newest 5.3?? If your just going to run postfix stick with 4.10 Korey
[IMGate] Re: need sugestions for new Imgate box
I am running it on 5.3 with no problems. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Terry Fritts Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 12:28 PM To: IMGate@mgw2.MEIway.com Subject: [IMGate] Re: need sugestions for new Imgate box Hi Kenzo, How did this pan out for you? I'm considering putting together 2 IMGATES using a couple of their boxes. Did you get the servers and are you happy with them? Also, what was your final hardware spec that you ended up with? Just curious... Hi Len - is there any issues with going to FreeBSD 5.2 or the newest 5.3?? Thx. -jason Friday, December 3, 2004, 3:00:12 PM, you wrote: K I have decided to go with eracks. (http://eracks.com/) They give the K option to custom build the systems and test the hardware with the OS K of your choice. This is good because then I won't have to worry about K hardwares not working.
[IMGate] Re: need sugestions for new Imgate box
Have you looked at a supermicro chasis. They work quite well with FreeBSD 4 and 5 branches -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kenzo Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMGate] need sugestions for new Imgate box I'm going to build a new Imgate box. I want a rack mount server that will at least have the following. - Xeon Processor 2.4 G + - Can support At least 2 G RAM - RAID 1 with SCSI I have an IBM Xseries 336 that I installed FreeBSD successfully, but it has a newer broadcom Gigabit Ethernet that FBSD doesn't support. I also looked at Freebsdsystems and like their stuff, but their way of payments is not that great. They want like the whole thing charged or pay half or something up front. My finance dept didn't like that. what hardware are you guys using with success. At this point my budget is probably about $5000. Thanks.
[IMGate] Re: need sugestions for new Imgate box
- Xeon Processor 2.4 G + - Can support At least 2 G RAM - RAID 1 with SCSI way too powerful, but what volume of msgs received/sent per day? At this point my budget is probably about $5000. for 1 box? you can buy a 1U box appropriate for 90% of MXs for $1000 max. Len
[IMGate] Re: need sugestions for new Imgate box
Well.. I have been tinkering with vinum to get a FreeBSD box to boot from a vinum mirrored drive (plex/volume), so I in turn ask a related question. How are you mirroring the whole machine if you assume you cannot afford a high end truly hardware raid card. I have read that there really are no true ide or sata hardware raid cards except for 3ware. These card cost almost as much as a server that I might build. True, there are very good hardware scsi raid cards out there, but you could also spend more than half your 1000$ budget on a card and 2 scsi drives. So my question is how are you mirroring drives with bsd. I have quite a bit of experience with Linux but this vinum/freebsd project has been quite the learning experience. I guess if nothing else I am suggesting that how you decide to mirror your drives could easily constitute 40-80% of your budget. Now this question is totally off topic, but... during this vinum biz. I had some thoughts rolling through my head... namely, I can't think of a reason why an Imgate or other similar function servers (most of our servers) should need 64 bit pci bus? No need for gigabit, all connections over the t1s, the 64 bit PCI bus will not increase the bandwidth to the ram?, so the only thing I can come up with is... OK, so maybe there might be an advantage if you install 64 pci SCSI/raid card, but if thats the case, I have another question... do you have to be utilizing more than one scsi chain/channel to take advantage of this ? I know for a fact that you have to raid within a channel (on same scsi chain) in the high end adaptec board I have worked with. The point is.. .the person before me bought all these dell servers with serverworks chipsets and 64bit pci slots. (32 bit cpu). On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 12:29, Kenzo wrote: hmm, let me rephrase my original E-mail. I was wondering what hardware for servers you guys are using. ie: IBM xseries xxx., compaq whatever xxx. with such and such. I don't want to buy a server and have some of its components not being supported. I know that what I mentioned is over kill, but at this point I just want something that will work. I want a 1U rack that I won't have to upgrade in the next 3-5 years when E-mail traffic has doubled or tripled. I hope that helps.
